Wright brothers

Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

The Wright Brothers’ bicycle with wings became air travel.

From The Wall Street Journal

The 21st century has continued to feel new for many Earthlings, those of us whose lives had one foot in the old century—the 20th, whose early years featured Model Ts and flappers and the Wright Brothers and Teddy Roosevelt—and one foot in the 21st, which arrived like a crisp blank page.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rally has also revived interest in Dow Theory, an investing idea that made its debut before the Wright brothers’ first flight.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We have the Wright Brothers’ plane in there and it actually flies,” said Michael Braunstein, executive director of the Les Paul Foundation, by way of comparison.

From Los Angeles Times

There has been talk of a third runway in west London since not long after the Wright brothers were first airborne.

From BBC