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Photographs
These photographs feature childhood and adult portraits of the
Wrights as well as their family, hometown, gliders, planes, and
wind tunnels. For nearly four hundred additional photographs,
visit the OhioLINK
Digital Media Center or the Ohio
Memory Project .
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Report Cards of Wilbur and Orville
Wright
Discover what types of scholars the brothers were in school.
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Wilbur Wright’s letter to the Smithsonian
Institution
Wilbur wrote this letter to the Smithsonian institution in 1899
to inquire about aeronautics research. It is the first documented
proof that he had become interested in the possibility of human
flight.
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Orville Wright’s December 17, 1903
Diary Entry
What did Orville feel like after he made the first flight? Read
his diary entry of December 17, 1903 to find out.
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Bishop Milton Wright’s 1903 Diary
Selections
Selection from the diary of the Wright brothers’ father, Bishop
Milton Wright.
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Wright Brothers’ Patent for the 1903 Flyer
This patent was granted to the Wrights in 1906 and protected them
from other inventors who might have tried to steal their ideas.
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"The Wright Brother’s Aëroplane"
by Orville and Wilbur Wright
Orville and Wilbur wrote this article, which appeared in the September
1908 issue of Century Magazine, to give people a first-person
account of how they invented flight.
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U.S. Signal Corps Agreement and
Specifications for a Heavier-Than-Air Flying Machine
The Army Signal Corps was a predecessor to the United State Air
Force. They made this agreement for the purchase of an airplane
from the Wrights in 1908. Also included are the airplane specifications
that the Wrights had to meet.
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"Girls Flew Too"
A reminiscence by Ivonette Wright Miller, niece of the Wright
brothers. Ivonette Wright Miller was one of the first girls to
fly in the United States. In this source she remembers what it
was like to fly with her Uncle Orville in 1911.
