John A. Röbling was a German-born American civil engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge in New York in 1867.
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Gustav Weisskopf (Whitehead) may have pre-dated the Wright brothers as the first heavier-than-air, powered, sustained flight. Newspaper accounts describe his flight in 1901, two years before the Wright brothers.
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