Jan Wnęk was a Polish carver of religious statues who is claimed to have constructed and flown a glider (aircraft) in the 1860s, predating the flights of Otto Lilienthal. There is a speculative "reconstruction" of Wnek's glider in the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków.
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About this person
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1828 to 1869 · aged 40
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