After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers’ groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

Charles Mallory claimed that this ungainly contraption carried him through the air for a distance of eighty feet although, conveniently, there were no other witnesses. Ohio license plates proclaim the ...

The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright tested their flying machine that would later become the modern airplane at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Orville piloted the first flight and it lasted 12 seconds, traveling ...

"Our homes", v. 32, no. 5 (1 March 1904; western edition) pages 240-243 -- "Our homes", v. 32, no. 20 (15 Oct. 1904; eastern edition), pages 987-988 -- "Our homes", v ...

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Springfield, Ohio -- The brain behind the Wright brothers' legal defense of their flying machine is now cast in bronze and overlooking his old office building. Officials have dedicated an eight-foot ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Wright brothers inaugurated the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a human-carrying, powered, and controlled heavier-than ...

Orville was the born engineer, Wilbur the visionary. The brothers' partnership started after a hockey accident seriously injured 18-year-old Wilbur, leaving him in a state of depression for nearly two ...

About Wright Brothers National Memorial The Wright Brothers both had a dream of trying to fly. They choose a site on North Carolina's Outer Banks to experiment with their ideas for a flying machine.