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HOW TIME FLIES

ere’s everything you need to know about the pilot’s watch. Before the aeroplane, the wristwatch did not even exist. Well, there was the occasional women’s wristwatch in the 19th century, but those were really just fancy bracelets that happened to tell the time – proper watches were worn in the pocket. Then, in 1904, the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont – the first person to be filmed flying a plane –

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