Joan Sallas <[email protected]> wrote: >Is not a though, but a documented evidence that 1721 children threw paper trough the high windows in the school Paedagogium Regium in Halle/Saale (Germany), where the >foldig art was teached as recreation.
Yes, I understand. So it is possible (perhaps even likely) that these pieces of paper were folded in some way. Though, if they were folded, we cannot know in what way. >A nice though, but until today not documented, is for example that Leonardo da Vinci created the first paper airplane, as many origami books explain. Good to know this as well. Thank you. My thanks to Robert for the David Lister information. Since this piece was written the date at which we can first substantiate paper darts appears to have been pushed back to 1864 but it still seems to me that we cannot actually substantiate the idea that paper darts preceeded their wood and cloth counterparts. Another question this raises in my mind is whether the earliest published paper planes were classic darts (prefiguring the design of modern aircraft!) or like the swallow design (more like their early wood and cloth counterparts?) Dave
