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.

At first, since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world’s first. Now, much to Brazil’s distress, the French ...

Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright's crowning achievement, the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its ...

They had a propeller the performance of which they could calculate. Engineering the age of flight NOVA: The Wright brothers were discovering aspects of flight that no one had known before.

Almost as astonishing as the fact that a pair of bicycle shop owners invented the airplane is the fact ... For one thing, the Wright Brothers were publicity shy and fiercely secretive about ...

Their feat was so momentous that license plates in both North Carolina ("First In Flight") and Ohio ... a bill this year that discredits the Wright brothers. Whitehead apparently flew for 1.5 ...

Since childhood, the brothers had experimented with the concept of flight. They were mechanically-minded young guys who were encouraged by the achievements of others. The Wright Brothers started ...

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.

The people who are said to have developed the world's first powered airplane and succeeded in manned powered flight are the American Wright Brothers. However, in Brazil, for several reasons, it is ...