Daedalus did. He was a wonderful inventor. He made two sets of wings, one for himself and one for his son, Icarus. When King Minos imprisoned them, they used the wings to escape. Icarus flew too high and the sun's heat melted the wax. He fell in the sea and drowned.
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Daedalus was the imprisoned designer of the Labyrinth, and invented wings made from feathers, string, and wax. But when he and his son Icarus used the wings to escape, Icarus flew too closely to the Sun, and fell into the sea when the wax in his wings melted.
Icarus is a part of Greek Mythology. Icarus tried to escape from Crete with wings made of wax from his father. Icarus didnÍt hollow his fatherÍs instruction to not fly close to the sun and when he did his wings melted and he fell in to the sea and drowned.
Yes he did. According to Greek mythology at least, he managed to escape from Crete by flying away on a set of home-made wings. It was his son Icarus who went too near to the Sun, causing the wax to melt that held together the feathers of his wings. But Daedalus flew home safely.
Prometheus made mankind from clay in Greek mythology. Prometheus shaped man from mud.
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The wax which kept together the feathers of the wings his father had made for him.