First Man to Fly was a Welshman, not American

"For a relatively small country, Wales has more than its fair share of inventors and innovators. In fact, it was a Welshman Bill Frost, who was the first man to patent the aeroplane in 1894, and not Orville and Wilbur Wright who most believe made the first powered flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft."

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