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Wilbur Wright born
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Orville was Born
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toy Penaud helicopter.
The toy inspires Wilbur and Orville’s first interest in flight. -
Wright family moves to Richmond, Indiana,
where Orville takes up kite-building. -
Wright Family returns to Dayton
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Orville begins to publish the weekly West Side News.
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Mother dies at age 58
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Orville and Wilbur open a bicycle shop, the Wright Cycle Company
business gives them the funds necessary to carry out their early aeronautical experiments. -
Orville invents a calculating machine that multiplies and adds.
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Orville seriously ill with typhoid fever
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Otto Lilienthal, aeronautical pioneer, dies from injuries suffered crash while testing his latest single-surface glider. The tragedy renews the Wright brothers’ interest in Lilienthal and the problem of human flight.
while testing his latest single-surface glider. The tragedy renews the Wright brothers’ interest in Lilienthal and the problem of human flight. -
right brothers begin to manufacture their own brand of bicycles
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Wilbur writes Smithsonian Institution inquiring about publications on aeronautical subjects.
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Brothers write the U.S. Weather Bureau for information on an appropriate place to conduct flying experiments.
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Wrights begin their experiments,
flying their glider as a kite and as a man-carrying glider. About a dozen free flights are made -
Chanute visits the Wrights at Kill Devil Hill and witnesses some of their glider experiments.
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Wilbur addresses the Western Society of Engineers on the brothers’ 1900–01 gliding experiments.
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Wrights conduct tests on airfoils and build a wind tunnel.
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right brothers apply for a patent on their flying machine (patent issued May 22, 1906).
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Wrights assemble their new glider
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wrights conduct experiments with propellers and begin to build their 1903 four-cylinder engine.
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Wrights apply for French and German patents on their airplane
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U.S. Board of Ordnance and Fortification rejects the Wrights’ offer of sale of their airplane.
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U.S. Patent Office grants the Wrights patent, No. 821,393, for a flying machine.
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The Wright brothers’ contract with the United States government for the purchase of “one heavier than air flying machine
