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by nyeah 452 days ago
'if that's what "invented" means then nobody has ever invented anything.'

People invent things. But "airplane" turned out to be much more than one thing. Not all of them were invented by Curtiss (a local favorite), or by Santos-Dumont, or by Lilienthal, Caproni, the Wrights, or whoever.