An artist’s rendering of the newly redesigned Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age gallery. But there is more to the Wright exhibition than seeing the first airplane to fly.

"The Wright brothers didn't even patent a powered airplane. They patented their 1902 glider. It embodied the lessons that were the foundation for the invention of the airplane, the critically ...

The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age (National Geographic, 2003, with Peter L. Jakab), and a new edition of The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Norton ...

the French realized the Wright brothers had moved far beyond other aviators. Once the Wrights had successfully marketed their invention, they returned to Ohio to manufacture airplanes. Orville ...

the Wright brothers piloted their Wright Flyer into the air in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and soared into the history books. Brazilians hear a different story: that the true inventor of the airplane was ...

The automatic pilot (‘autopilot’) has to be one of aviation’s finest technological inventions. Yet, it is also one of the ...

One of his first inventions was a type of bicycle where ... 1902 – a full 18 months ahead of Wright brothers’ well recorded powered flight on December 17, 1903. Pearse, however, never staked ...

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 ...