When the Wright brothers made their first powered flight in 1903, women in the United States could not vote in federal elections. Neither could women in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, or most of the world. The idea that a woman would operate a machine capable of killing her, at a time when her legal rights were somewhere between tenuous and non-existent, was considered by most observers to be either scandalous or absurd. A signific…
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