(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet. 1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school. (obsolete) A bat or beetle used in washing clothes.
The parachute, like the helicopter and the hang glider, dates back to the drawings of mankind's greatest public genius, Leonardo da Vinci.
Gustave Whitehead invented and flew the  world's first airplane in 1901, at Fairfield, CT. His monoplane,  called No. 21 or the Condor, was based on Count D'Esterno's and  Otto Lilienthal's designs.he first official airplane hop was in 1890, but the idea has been around since Da Vinci. Also, the first jet flight was in 1939, but the Germans only started using them in 1944. i don't know when it was invented. What about you.