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Orville and Wilbur Wright Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Wright glider Wright glider first flight by Orville Wright, December 17, 1903 Wright flyer, 1905 Orville Wright
Orville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909
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Orville Wright: flight of the first military airplane, 1909
The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army in 1909 by...
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Explore the Franklin Institute, dedicated to Benjamin Franklin and science
A discussion of the Philadelphia museum dedicated to Benjamin Franklin and science...
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Take a historical and architectural tour inside the Wright brothers' wind tunnel on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A look inside the Wright brothers' wind tunnel on the campus of the Massachusetts...
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
Orville Wright (left) and Wilbur Wright, c. 1910.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. cph 3a08822)
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur Wright.
Brown Brothers
Orville Wright
Orville Wright.
Brown Brothers
Wright glider
Side view of Wilbur Wright gliding in level flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-ppprs-00603)
Wright glider
Wilbur Wright executes a banking turn to the right in the Wright brothers' first...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-ppprs-00598)
first flight by Orville Wright, December 17, 1903
Orville Wright beginning the first successful controlled flight in history, at Kill...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-6166A)
Wright flyer, 1905
The Wright brothers' first practical flying machine, with Orville Wright at the controls,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 00658u)
Orville Wright
Orville Wright demonstrating a Wright brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army at Fort...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur Wright.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Orville Wright
Orville Wright.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
Orville and Wilbur Wright standing on a porch in Dayton, Ohio, United States, 1909.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZ62-67331)
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