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Wilbur Wright was born near Millville, Indiana to Milton and Susan Wright.
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Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio to Milton and Susan Wright.
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A hockey injury stopped Wilbur from going to college. He was smashed in the face with a hockey stick. He later developed nervous heart palpitations and digestive issues.
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The Wright brothers built their first aeroplane thing, a rubber-band powered helicopter they called a bat in Dayton, Ohio.
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Orville published a paper, the "West Side News," and Wilbur joined him as editor. The newspaper business is bad so the world canceled it and the Orville returned to his printing job.
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Orville started a printing business while still in high school
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Wilbur and Orville Wright started a sell and repair bike
shop called the Wright Cycle Exchange at 1005 West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio. They later on in life abandoned that idea. -
The Wrights decided to try to make aeroplanes so people could fly.
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The Wrights made their own bicycles, the "St. Clair" and the "Van Cleve."
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Wilbur devised an aerodynamic control system for aircraft. He built a kite to test it.
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The Wright brothers flew gliders in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and fixed their control system. At home in Dayton, Ohio, they built a wind tunnel and researched wing shapes and sizes.
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The Wright brothers made the first controlled, safe powered flights at Kitty Hawk
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The Wright brothers made practical aeroplanes, so the world can now fly.
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The Wright brothers manufactured aeroplanes.
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Wilbur dies of typhoid in Dayton, Ohio.
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Orville sells his aeroplane company
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Orville Wright died of a heart attack in Dayton, Ohio.
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Dayton, Ohio The Wright brothers' first powered aeroplane, the 1903 "Flyer," was given to the Smithsonian Institution.