"Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal"@en . . . "1848-05-23Z"^^ . . . "Otto Lilienthal"@en . "German aviation pioneer" . "1896Z"^^ . . . . . . . "Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 \u2013 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal gliding, favorably influencing public and scientific opinion about the possibility of flying machines becoming practical."@en . "Lilienthal, Otto"@en . . "1896-08-10Z"^^ . . "1848Z"^^ . .