13 August 1895 and 15 June 1905 Ján Bahýľ gets a machine off the groundJán Bahýľ dvíha stroj zo zeme

Bahýľ served as an army engineer in Galicia and in Dalmatia, and on 13 August 1895 he was granted a patent privilege for a flying machine of his own design. On 15 June 1905 he demonstrated a successful flight in public, in Bratislava — a machine that lifted vertically, eighteen months after the Wright brothers' first powered aeroplane. How early that was compared with rotary-wing flight elsewhere is argued over, as claims in early aviation usually are. He was granted seventeen military and other technical patents in his lifetime, and with A. Marschall he built, in 1895–1897, what is usually called the first petrol-engined motor car in Slovakia.Bahýľ slúžil ako vojenský inžinier v Haliči a v Dalmácii a 13. augusta 1895 dostal patentové privilégium na lietajúci stroj vlastnej konštrukcie. 15. júna 1905 predviedol v Bratislave verejnosti úspešný let — stroj, ktorý sa dvíhal zvisle, osemnásť mesiacov po prvom motorovom lete bratov Wrightovcov. O tom, ako skoro to bolo v porovnaní s vrtuľníkovými pokusmi inde vo svete, sa vedú spory, ako to pri raných leteckých prvenstvách býva. Za život mu udelili sedemnásť vojenských a iných technických patentov a spolu s A. Marschallom postavil v rokoch 1895 – 1897 to, čo sa zvyčajne označuje za prvý automobil s benzínovým motorom na Slovensku.