Preface: The Wright myth -- Part 1: Preflight. The biographer, 1942 ; The letter, 1948 ; The murderer, 1884 ; Steam bugs, 1896 ; Typhoid, 1896 ; Inventors, 1900 ...

Orville was the born engineer, Wilbur the visionary. The brothers' partnership started after a hockey accident seriously injured 18-year-old Wilbur, leaving him in a state of depression for nearly two ...

Today, Wilbur and Orville Wright are as synonymous with the first to achieve powered flight as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are with the first to walk on the moon. But it wasn’t always so. In a four ...

It's the only airplane in the country to be designated as a National Historic Landmark, and now the Wright Flyer III is about to become Ohio's official state airplane. Ohio state lawmakers, while ...

Welcome back, readers! It’s time for another installment of I Never Knew That, our video series highlighting the famous—and infamous—figures profiled on Biography.com. For this episode, editor Tyler ...

A bronze statue of Harry Toulmin has stood eight feet tall for 18 years across Main Street from Springfield’s Bushnell Building. But so that everyone who catches the elevator inside will know the ...

Who you are is shaped by your circumstance. Wilbur Wright was a brilliant young man from a well-to-do family, and the circumstances of his life compelled him to magnificent accomplishments. The elder ...

Typed letter signed in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Wright Cycle Company. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviators generally credited with ...

The Dayton Fire Department in Ohio said that it was still investigating what caused the fire at the historic site, where the Wright brothers first manufactured planes starting in 1910. By Amanda ...

On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made America's first flight on a secluded, sandy stretch of land in Kitty Hawk. Paul Carr, a retired commercial airline pilot from Cary, portrays Wilbur ...

A single-engine plane was trying to land when it crashed into a wooded area near the memorial in North Carolina on Saturday, the National Park Service said. By Ali Watkins The Dayton Fire Department ...