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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“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.

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

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"Birds were the inspiration for airplanes in the first place, and the Wright brothers made this dream come true, but even today's planes are still quite far from what birds are capable of," says LIS PhD student Won Dong Shin.

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Grover C. Bergdoll flying the plane he bought from the Wright brothers.

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The Franklin Institute, a Philadelphia museum dedicated to the study of science, has long said one of its most impressive holdings — a plane built in 1911 by the Wright brothers — was a gift from a man named Grover C. Bergdoll.

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