The Wright Brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright were born to Bishop Milton Wright and his wife Susan. Wilbur, their third son, was born on a small farm near Millville, Indiana on April 16, 1867. Orville was born at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio. The five Wright children grew up in a happy environment where they were always encouraged to pursue intellectual interests. The family was a very close one, even though Bishop Wright was a firm disciplinarian. In June of 1884, the family decided to move from Richmond, Indiana back to Dayton, the same month Wilbur was to have graduated from high school. Wilbur had to leave without a diploma, but he came back the next year to study further in Greek and trigonometry.By carefully studying the works of those before them, The Wright Brothers began their efforts to build the first airplane. The Wright Brothers were very good at judging weather the many ideas they read were good or worthless. They slowly began putting together the bits and pieces of information that were scattered throughout the books they read.
With the help of their wind tunnel, the brothers created the first effective heavier -than- aircraft, the 1902 glider. Although the glider only covered 662 feet on the ground, it was flying into a stiff wind, and was really flying a much larger distance in the air. Wilbur found the perfect spot to practice flying near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. He felt it was important to find a remote place where their experiments could be done without a lot of people around. Chanute, while doing his experiments in the dunes of Indiana, had been bothered with spectators and media. All the Wright brothers had left to do was build a engine for their glider. They built a 4-cylinder gasoline engine. After that they returned to their wind tunnel to test propeller shapes, and designed their 1903 craft. Lilienthal, a well-known German engineer's findings on the lift and wing surfaces. Using this, they designed their 1900 glider. The Wrights patterned their aircraft after the Chanute-Herring biplane, a biplane glider that was sturdy and pretty successful. In 1900, when the brothers decided to try to bu
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