WRIGHT BROTHERS
Aeroplane Company
ere are several
more photos and drawings to help tell the story of the invention of the airplane.
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 The Wright Cycle Shop at 1127 West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio. |
 A Wright bicycle manufactured in 1897. |
 The Wright Home at 7 Hawthorne Street in Dayton, Ohio. |
 The wreck of the 1900 Wright Glider. |
 The 1901 Wright Glider in flight. |
 The homemade "lift balance" that the Wright brothers used to measure the lift and drag of various wing shapes in their wind tunnel. |
 The 1902 Wright Glider executing a right turn. |
 Getting ready to fly in Kitty Hawk on December 14, 1903. |
 The Wright brothers and Charlie Taylor built this engine to power the 1903 Flyer 1. |
 A catapult-assisted take-off of the Wright Flyer 2 at Huffman Prairie in 1904. |
 The crash of the Military Flyer in 1908. |
 1909 Homecoming in Dayton, Ohio. |