8 Hobbies That Changed The World Forever

A Toy Inspired the Wright Brothers to Achieve Flight:

Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers from Dayton, OH, became the first people to fly a heavier than air, power controlled machine, known as the Wright Flyer. This did not simply happen overnight. The brothers had been tinkering with the idea of the flight, on and off since childhood. Once their father, Milton Wright, brought home a rubber band powered toy helicopter which was designed by a French aeronautical experimenter Alphonse Penaud, this toy did not simply fall to the ground as expected.

Instead, it flew across the room till it struck the ceiling and finally sank to the floor. Though the fragile toy soon broke, the brothers never forgot it. Later, Orville accredited this childhood toy as his spark of inspiration.

Roosevelt’s Love of Reading Made Him a Great President:

Theodore Roosevelt was quite famously an avid reader. He would read a book before breakfast, and another two or three in the evening. It’s estimated he read tens of thousands of books in his lifetime, many of them in other languages. Another key to the vast number of books Roosevelt read was his remarkable power of concentration.

While in a train on presidential business, he’d sit completely absorbed in his books, disengage to have brief conversations with the delegations that came through his car, and then immediately lose himself once more in the pages before him. This vast knowledge helped Roosevelt’s political career, surprising people from virtually any background.

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