Feng Ru by Linda Piskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2016-10-28 11:23:59 UTC 2016-10-28 16:23:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Feng Ru lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133853845 2016-10-28 11:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133853845 Immigrant to the United States lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854037 2016-10-28 11:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854037 lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854133 amazed at "America's prosperity"]]> 2016-10-28 11:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854133 lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854326 Learned all he could about machines]]> 2016-10-28 11:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854326 understood that "industrialization made the country great and it could do the same for China" lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854398 2016-10-28 11:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854398 developed versions of the water pump, the generator, the telephone and the wireless telephone lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854620 2016-10-28 11:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854620 "Turned his attention to aviation reading anything he could find on the Wright brothers lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854787 2016-10-28 11:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854787 In 1906 he started his own airplane factory lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854911 2016-10-28 11:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133854911 His workshop was little more than a shack, and testing new aircraft was dangerous lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133862254 2016-10-28 12:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133862254 lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133862546 During a test, Feng lost control of his airplane "which plunged into his workshop, setting it ablaze" (Maskell)]]> 2016-10-28 12:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133862546 Anti- Chinese sentiment was on the rise when Feng Ru decided to take his airplane to China for exhibition flights lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133877382 2016-10-28 13:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133877382 Feng Ru was killed while performing "in a plane of his own design and manufacture." (Maskel) lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133877723 2016-10-28 13:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133877723 "As he lay dying he told his assistants, " Your faith in the progress of your cause is by no means to be affected by my death." lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133878009 2016-10-28 13:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133878009 China gave Feng Ru a full military funeral and engraved the words "Chinese Aviation Pioneer" on his tombstone. lpiskowski https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133878287 2016-10-28 13:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lpiskowski/98hfnba0hg8r/wish/133878287