... it went 120 feet at an altitude of 10 feet at less than 7 miles per hour.

Imagine how different our current lives and human history for the past 115 years would had been if man never has been able to built a machine that flew.

Imagine if World War I and especially World War II still happened but without any flying machines of any kinds including air balloons and airships and airplanes.

The world the human race knew then changed when the aircraft was invented.

Nothing before it had the power to bring the world so much closer together before the aircraft was invented, not even ships and it wasn't match by its scope and impact again until the World Wide Web and the internet was invented.

Without this event in Human history, we would not have had this 65 years after it, 50 years ago:

https://gizmodo.com/50-years-later-the-iconic-apollo-8-earthrise-photo-sti-1831298664