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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How to use Wright brothers in a sentence

  • 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 Vivian
  • The general history of the flight engines used by the Wright brothers is quite fascinating and fortunately rather well recorded.

  • The Wright brothers, however, were received with glad foreign embrace.

    Defenseless America | Hudson Maxim
  • Unfortunately, no evidence of the Wright brothers themselves on this point is available.

    A History of Aeronautics | E. Charles Vivian
  • Our country did indeed produce the Wright brothers, pioneers and true conquerors of the air with airplanes.

    Aircraft and Submarines | Willis J. Abbot.