Wright brothers

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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It is a great story, this of the Wright Brothers, and one worth all the detail that can be spared it.

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

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The Wright Brothers, however, were received with glad foreign embrace.

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Unfortunately, no evidence of the Wright Brothers themselves on this point is available.

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Our country did indeed produce the Wright Brothers, pioneers and true conquerors of the air with airplanes.

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