Watson Fell Quinby
From Kook Science
Watson Fell Quinby (December 15, 1825 - May 26, 1918) was an American physician, explorer, and general dabbler in various areas of knowledge, including flying machines.
Reading
- YanniRotten, For your consideration: Dr. Watson Fell Quinby (1825-1918) of Delaware, USA: , original inventor of the airplane in 1861 (or 1879), California explorer, solver of Solomon's Seal, race(ist) theorist, dabbler in unlikely toponymy, deprecator of the metric system, and pioneering homeopath!, reddit.com/r/kookscience, https://www.reddit.com/r/kookscience/comments/v8mxsn/for_your_consideration_dr_watson_fell_quinby/
Selected Patents
- Airplane (1879), https://patents.google.com/patent/US218573A
- Several "flying apparatus" designs that would be powered by the flapping of the wearer's arms: