Now letâs see what we get when we do the math. The mean of this new data set would be the sum of the values ($690,000) divided by the number of values (11). This gives you a mean or average salary for the accounting department of $62,727.
Forget Orville Wright and his brother Wilbur. Start thinking instead of Alberto Santos Dumont, the Brazilian pioneer aviator and the man who really invented the aeroplane. That is the attitude here in Brazil, as the country prepares to celebrate the centenary tomorrow of the world's first powered flight.
On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright capped four years of research and design efforts with a 120-foot, 12-second flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina-the first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. Prior to that, people had flown only in balloons and gliders.he first person to fly as a passenger was Leon Delagrange, who rode with French pilot Henri Farman from a meadow outside of Paris in 1908. Charles Furnas became the first American airplane passenger when he flew with Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk later that year.