In The Prehistory of Flight Clive Hart analyzes the development of theoretical conceptions of flight and the nature of the air above us. Here we have reproduced his directory of attempts at heavier-than-air-flight. As Hart notes, "the earlist visions of manned flight call forth zany and ingenious inventiveness." Hart has written widely on the history of aviation, and is also a distinguished Joyce scholar. His research interests include experimental fiction, Swedish literature, the poetry and iconography of flight, and erotic tension in the poetry and visual arts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Cabinet Issue 11 features an interview with Clive Hart in its special themed section on Flight.

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