Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Aircraft inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont believed air travel would bring peace to the world so he filed no patents and offered his designs free yet burned all his designs when he was accused of being a German spy during World War 2 and committed suicide after seeing aircrafts being used in warfare in the 1930s.

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