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[Pages 215-222 of Greater Dayton] (includes The Wright Brothers and their Aeroplane)

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[Pages 215-222 of Greater Dayton] (includes The Wright Brothers and their Aeroplane)

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The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, photographs, and other materials dating from 1809 to 1979. The subject file contains documents organized by topic or subject and may include items such as newspaper articles, government documents, and notes or notes taken by the Wright brothers. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers are held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and are open to researchers by appointment.

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing, building and flying the world's the first successful airplane. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.​ "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." Orville Wright

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1915 - 1925
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