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 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 ...

Unlike the Wright brothers, the inventor left no letters, diaries, notebooks, calculations, or drawings recording his experiments, his thoughts, or the details of his craft. While there are a ...

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 Wright brothers' 1903 flight changed aviation, demonstrating that powered flight was possible. Their inventions opened the groundwork for contemporary aviation, sound barrier breakthroughs ...

The historic tale of the Wright Brothers and the invention of flying is getting the movie treatment via Wonder Project, the nascent independent studio that is creating films and series for the ...

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.