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Internet Sites

Franklin Institute Flights of Inspiration Exhibit. http://sln.fi.edu/flights/first/intro.html

Gopher text of the Wright Brothers Papers inventory at the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. gopher://marvel.loc.gov/00/.ftppub/mss/msspub/fa/w/wrightbr.txt

"How We Made the First Flight" by Orville Wright. http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/wriframe.htm

Lawrence Hargrave: Australian Aviator Pioneer 1850-1915. http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/lawr-h.htm

The Octave Chanute Pages http://www.crown.net/~sspicer/chanute/chan_ind.html

"To Fly is Everything" Virtual Museum of the Invention of Aviation. http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/