The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age not only ... and popular culture all recognized the revolutionary meaning of human flight realized, and all embraced the new aerial age.

In 1949 the Library of Congress acquired 303 glass plate negatives developed by the Wright brothers ... the brothers honed their camera skills as they documented their flight research.

Because the Wright brothers solved the problem of sustained, controlled flight, humans soon conquered ... navigated a flying machine of their own invention for three miles in the teeth of a ...

Brazilians hear a different story: that the true inventor ... since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world ...

Engineering the age of flight NOVA: The Wright brothers were discovering aspects ... That's the way they stepped toward the invention of the airplane. NOVA: What does December 17, 1903, represent ...

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

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 boys of the Wright family are all lacking ... trouble convincing Orville to work with him on the invention. The brothers reasoned that flight depended on three concepts: the shape of the ...

The Wright brothers probably achieved such recognition because they went on to improve their planes, instead of hitting an invention-ceiling.

The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem ... Museum 1903 Wright Flyer National Air and Space Museum Telegraph key, Wright 1903 flight National Air and Space ...