This principle, which the Wright brothers called "wing warping," was a revolutionary break-through. In 1900 they built a full-size, piloted version of a box kite and tested its control mechanisms ...

December 17 is nationally recognized as Wright Brothers Day. The brothers' innovation is one of North Carolina's seminal moments. As most drivers know, the state honors their "First in Flight ...

The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

The famous Wright brothers were not the first to fly, nor were they the first to accomplish powered flight. They weren't even the first to fly an airplane (counting gliders as airplanes).

This led The Beatles to the wild artistic risk of Revolver. In the eyes of Ray Davies, it was a risk that failed. The Kinks ...

So he offered to try to get Andrew Carnegie to supply funds. WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE December 23,1901 As to your suggestion in regard to Mr. Carnegie, of course nothing would give me ...

The brothers had assumed that they could learn ... accurately in advance a screw propeller's performance. WILBUR WRIGHT TO OCTAVE CHANUTE DAYTON, June 18, 1903 The papers on screws [propellers ...

It represents a unique moment in history when, on 17 December 1903, the Wright Brothers made the first sustained, powered and controlled flights, marking the birth of modern aviation. The fabric ...

On Feb. 15, 1858, at the B Street home of Sutter County District Attorney Zachariah Montgomery, Eleanor Bridget Evoy Montgomery gives birth to John Joseph Montgomery. He is one of six children born to ...