Top 7 Unsolved Indian Mysteries to Tease Your Brain - Page 3 of 9

The First Ever Airplane

The Wright Brothers made the first plane. Or did they? Some say, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade may be the first man to develop the plane. What’s more, that he did that just about 10 years prior to the Wright Brothers, who are really credited for the development. Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, conceived in Maharashtra, purportedly built and flew an unmanned plane called MarutSakha in 1895. It is said that he got the outlines from his Guru and the plane supposedly had a mercury particle motor. It is additionally said that he couldn’t proceed with his model plane because of deficiency of a proper market. Thus, no acknowledgment for his accomplishment was ever granted to him.