The tub would fall five stories. The glider would then sail out silently over the town of Colditz, giving its occupants a good head start over the German guards, who would soon discover a bathtub ...

and created the powerful German Empire. After the war, he started a company to build steam engines and boilers and filed his first patent for a mining machine. The Derwitzer Glider, built in 1891 ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight.