Inventions whose working principle or primary application is flight. Belongs here: the airplane and the jet engine as powered-flight technologies, and the kite as the earliest heavier-than-air flight device. Does not belong here: ground-based mechanical transport, grouped under Mechanical Engineering, or navigation instruments used at sea as well as in the air, grouped under Marine Engineering.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Aerospace engineering
WikipediaHistory, 1958 first definitionQuote, History, 1958 first definition
The first definition of aerospace engineering appeared in February 1958, considering the Earth's atmosphere and outer space as a single realm.
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