Wright brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American mechanics and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who achieved the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine — what we today call an airplane. Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
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It is a great story, this of the Wright brothers, and one worth all the detail that can be spared it.
A History of Aeronautics | E. Charles VivianThe general history of the flight engines used by the Wright brothers is quite fascinating and fortunately rather well recorded.
The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design | Leonard S. Hobbs.The Wright brothers, however, were received with glad foreign embrace.
Defenseless America | Hudson MaximUnfortunately, no evidence of the Wright brothers themselves on this point is available.
A History of Aeronautics | E. Charles VivianOur country did indeed produce the Wright brothers, pioneers and true conquerors of the air with airplanes.
Aircraft and Submarines | Willis J. Abbot.
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