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		Ray20 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? ... Perhaps it was precisely because they were not so skilled?

bee_rider 7 months ago [–]

Carpentry is a pretty big field, so it is probably not right to say they were or weren’t skilled.

They didn’t have the specific skill of making cart wheels.

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