In 1949 the Library of Congress acquired 303 glass plate negatives developed by the Wright brothers ... the brothers honed their camera skills as they documented their flight research.

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 ... one of the most iconic artifacts in the ...

Wilbur and Orville Wright, the legendary brothers, together invented ... on human attempts at mechanized flight, including “such papers as the Smithsonian has published on this subject, and ...

After the Wright brothers developed the first powered airplane, it didn't take long for the military to want to adopt it.

In a letter to Langley, director of the Smithsonian Institution, Wilbur wrote, "I believe that simple flight at least ... This principle, which the Wright brothers called "wing warping," was ...

For months, Lake reached out to the Franklin Institute for information about the provenance of the Wright brothers plane and requested ... Flyer (which went to the Smithsonian’s National Air ...

“This is a very Brazilian thing,” said Peter Jakab, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian ... Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’ ...

A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, testified in February that the 1905 plane was "their Tesla," and represented the beginning of a human flight plan to Mars.

Malloy even signed a bill this year that discredits the Wright brothers ... Paul Jackson claims the Smithsonian historians made a suspicious deal for the Wright's plane, which they bought for ...