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Post by Wilhelm Cransnikov on Apr 2, 2022 17:38:24 GMT
The skies were clear, there was no wind, and the plains of Daneland were clear. In short, today was the day Hengist and Horsa were waiting for a perfect day to test the Valkerie, a higher-than-air flying machine. A crowd gathered to watch the spectacle. Some were hoping for success, while others were excited to see this farce fail. Everyone held their breath as the strange machine moved forward across the ad-hoc runway, and to the shock of all rose off the ground into the sky. For two minutes the Valkerie flew forward across the sky reaching 40 miles per hour and covering nearly two-thousand feet before touching down and stopping without serious complication. Thunderous applause were sounded by the crowd and everyone knew that the world was just changed for better or for worse.
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Post by Dunwik on Apr 2, 2022 17:46:35 GMT
At almost exactly the same time in a small field near Providence, the son of a dead and disgraced engineer completed his father's toil. Almost ten years to the day of Oscar Wright's death, Edmund Fitzgerald Wright checked the propellers and wings of his wood-and-canvas contraption one last time, drinking a bracing shot of whiskey as he climbed into the machine. There was little spectacle for his work, little care for it. He was merely a fool repeating the madness of his dead father, after all. Only local news was on site.
But where Oscar was a pseudoscientist, Edmund was a true engineer, a meticulous and sober man who had calculated everything. His machine lifted off, the first(?) heavier-than-air flying machine the world had ever seen. For a minute and a half he remained aloft, flying in a wide, lazy circle before touching down. He knew, finally, that his true work could begin, the uncontested inventor of the world's first heavier-than-air flying machine!
So when Edmund sat down with his newspaper the next day and heard two Tholes had ALSO made one, he was absolutely livid.
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Post by Wilhelm Cransnikov on Apr 2, 2022 18:05:05 GMT
Royal Decree
In recognition of their great service to the advancement of The Tholish state the brothers Hengist and Horsa Eriksson are awarded knighthoods and have been placed as royal retainers. Furthermore, in total forty million Thalers worth of grants are currently being offered by the Royal Academy of the Sciences, as well as access to the designs of the aforementioned brothers, for further development of their work.
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Post by Dunwik on Apr 2, 2022 21:23:36 GMT
=Invention wracked by scandal! Inventor claims theft of his work!=
Vagus-born engineer Edmund Fitzgerald Wright, inventor of the heavier-than-air flying machine has claimed that a pair of Tholes have stolen his invention, and has attempted to file suit of theft of patent towards the two.
At the moment, neither he, nor the Tholish pair (Hengist and Horsa) have returned our calls for interview.
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