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    The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers...
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    timeline for each of the different model of Wright aircraft.[citation needed] Wilbur and Orville Wright devised slightly different flight controls in...
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    first time. Wright Mons was soon after informally named by the New Horizons team after American aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright. On 30 May...
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    McFarland, Marvin W., ed. (1953). The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute. Vol...
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    "Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings" Des Moines Register 1980. Renstrom, Arthur G. (1975). Wilbur and Orville Wright A Chronology Commemorating...
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    Fred (1998). Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Courier Dover Publications. p. 437. ISBN 0-486-40297-5. "Orville Wright in US Air Service...
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    Hart O. Berg (category Wright brothers)
    and Orville Wright, 4 November 1920. Wright Papers - Subject File: Foreign Business - Germany - Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft to Wilbur and Orville Wright...
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    Deutsch entered into a partnership with Wilbur Wright and Hart O. Berg to establish a company in France to supply a Wright aircraft to the French government...
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  • published 1975]. Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Reissue of A Chronology Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright, August 19, 1871...
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    printed by the fledgling company of his high-school acquaintances, Wilbur and Orville Wright. The paper lasted six weeks. After completing his formal schooling...
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    2021. "Letter, Amelia Earhart to Orville Wright, August 6, 1932". The Library of Congress, The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers. Retrieved 12 February 2014...
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    Wright biplane flown by Orville Wright in Montgomery, Alabama. 1909: E.T. Odum brings an aircraft to the Alabama State Fair. 15 March 1910: Orville and...
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    emotionally. When Orville Wright was injured in 1908, Katherine moved close to the hospital to take care of him. Later, after the Wright brothers patented...
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    McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino; Gardner, Joseph Sammartino (2003). Wilbur & Orville Wright: taking flight. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda, Inc. p. 103. ISBN 1-57505-443-4...
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    by Orville Wright in the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, covering 37 m (120 ft). First circular flight by a powered airplane: was made by Wilbur Wright...
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    befriended Wilbur Wright during his sensational 1908 public demonstrations in France, had offered the prize hoping that Wilbur would win. Wilbur wanted to...
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    United States President. Wilbur Wright, co-inventor of the plane with his brother Orville died from typhoid 32 years before Orville. Stephen A. Douglas, political...
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    ISBN 0-925776-09-2. Opdycke 1999 p.264 Howard, Fred (1987). Wilbur and Orville : a biography of the Wright brothers (1st ed.). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications...
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  • Biediger, P. Douglas Boatman, Mitsuru Shindo, Chase C. Smith, Soekchan Kim, et al.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 1994; 116(4); 1597–1598. DOI Abstract First total...
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    flight by Orville Wright, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, was recorded in a famous photograph. In the fourth flight of the same day, Wilbur Wright flew 852...
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    tobacco manufacture. Wilbur Wright began official public demonstrations of the airplane he had developed with his younger brother Orville on 8 August 1908...
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    National Transportation Safety Board. "Fatal Fall Of Wright Airship. Lieut. Selfridge Killed and Orville Wright Hurt by Breaking of Propeller. Machine A Total...
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    Army Signal Corps issued a specification for a military aircraft. Orville Wright made a successful demonstration to the Army on 3 September 1908. On...
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    ISBN 978-0-517543-26-9. Crouch, Tom D. (1990). The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30695-X. Retrieved...
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  • 1999), preface p. vi. Crouch, Tom D. The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003) Garraty, John Arthur; Carnes, Mark...
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  • their work, such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Sid Meier and Will Wright. The art world experienced the development of new styles and explorations...
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    encounter with an eagle, 4 July 1911 Howard, Fred (1998). Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Courier Dover. p. 375. ISBN 0-486-40297-5...
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  • color films. Wilbur Wright und seine Flugmaschine was the first film shot from an aeroplane. The flight took place in April 1909. Wilbur Wright was training...
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  • Murdoch Mysteries (category Cultural depictions of the Wright brothers)
    Conan Doyle, Queen Victoria, Theodore Roosevelt, Oliver Mowat, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Henry Ford, Sir Winston Churchill, Bat Masterson, Alexander Graham...
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    Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue University Libraries General Correspondence: Earhart, Amelia, 1932–1934, The Wilbur and Orville Wright...
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