The invention of the airplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright is one of the great stories in American history. The Wright brothers’ invention not only solved a long-studied technical problem, but helped ...

Benjamin Franklin did fly a kite with a key to discover electricity. (Not exactly.) Wilbur and Orville Wright, the legendary brothers, together invented manned mechanical flight. To deconstruct ...

People came by the thousands to see the most remarkable sight of their era: Wilbur Wright flying an airplane over the fields of France in 1908. His performance and Orville’s later equally ...

Before going on display, the 1911 Wright Model B airplane made 748 flights without incident, racing across Philadelphia’s skyways and circling William ... to fly from Orville Wright.

Monument Ave., about the Birth of Aviation. Marker location Marker text In 1899, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton built a kite to test a revolutionary flight control system, and in 1900 ...