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== Legacy ==
Swedenborg's machine was evaluated by the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1910.  Its editor wrote that the machine constituted "…the first rational proposal for a flying machine of the aeroplance [heavier-than-air] type…"<ref>Söderberg, p. 32</ref> Later working heavier-than-air flying machines were built (e.g.[[Wright Brothers]]) so Swedenborg's machine did not play any part in the further development of aviation.”<ref>"Flying Machine (Swedenborg)"[http://www.reference.com/browse/swedenborg+aviation?s=t From ''Swedenborg's Flying Machine''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922221337/http://www.reference.com/browse/swedenborg+aviation?s=t |date=2013-09-22 }}</ref>