Carl Friedrich Meerwein

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Carl Friedrich Meerwein (*2. August 1737 in Leiselheim; † 6. December 1810 in Emmendingen) was a German civil engineer and aviation pioneer.

He built flying devices with moving wings. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica he succeeded in flying with one of these devices in 1781. Further attempts were less successful. There is a legend that he only survived one of his flights in 1784 because he hit exactly a dung pile.


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