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 had to just go, and not everybody was behind them.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

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

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

"To me, this is like a Wright brothers moment," de Heer said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

He said he has more than 600 bikes in his collection, including a bike built by the Wright brothers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2023

The Wright brothers had made their first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, less than eleven years earlier, and by 1914 airplanes were still simple and few.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman