WRIGHT BROTHERS Aeroplane Company

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Orville drew his brother Wilbur into the printing trade first as a consultant on press construction, then as a writer and editor. The Bishop began to funnel some of the United Brethren's printing contracts to his sons. The first of these was a pamphlet, Scenes in the Church Commission, written by Wilbur Wright. More significant was the imprint of the publishers -- Wright Bros. It was the first time that phrase appeared in print.

Wilbur and Orville built a second, larger press capable of printing 500 to 1000 sheets and hour, and its construction was ingenious enough to attract the attention of other professional printers. Ed Sines, by then an employee of the Wrights, recalled that a "...pressman for a Chicago house...walked into the front office and asked if 'that Wright press was running today.' When we told him it was running, he said he would like to see it. Well, he went back to the press room, stood by the machine, looked at it, then sat down beside it and finally crawled underneath it. After he had been under the machine some little time he got up and said, 'Well, it works, but I certainly don't see how it does work.'"

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