Abbas Ibn Firnas - The First Manned Flight

Abbas Ibn Firnas (810 887 AD), was a polymath living in the Caliphate of Cordoba. He is credited with being the first man to fly thanks to his ingenious Fly machine, more than a thousand years before the Wright brothers took to the skies. Ibn Firnas is also credited as responsible for modern spectacles. He developed a method of producing colourless glass, and fashioned corrected lenses (which he called "reading stones"). ---------- Discoveries made from the 7th to 17th centuries by multi ...