Clark Dyer’s Flying Machine

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In the hills of North Georgia in the 19th century lived a farmer named Micajah Clark Dyer. Dyer wasn’t just a Georgia farmer, though. He was a self-taught inventor and tinkerer whose passion was flight. Clark Dyer devised a very detailed flying machine that not only received a patent from the U.S. Patent office, but, it’s said, actually made a flight before the Wright brothers did.

Today we tell that story.

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