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  2. Wright Cycle Company - Wikipedia

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    The bicycle business of the Wright brothers, the Wright Cycle Company (originally the Wright Cycle Exchange) successively occupied six different locations in Dayton, Ohio. Orville and Wilbur Wright began their bicycle repair, rental and sales business in 1892, while continuing to operate a print shop (they ended their local newspaper business ...

  3. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    Through the invention of powered flight, Wilbur and Orville Wright made significant contributions to human history. In their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shops, the Wright brothers, who self-trained in the science and art of aviation, researched and built the world's first power-driven, heavier-than-air machine capable of free, controlled, and sustained flight.

  4. Wright brothers - Wikipedia

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    Wright brothers at the Belmont Park Aviation Meet in 1910 near New York. The Wright Company transported the first known commercial air cargo on November 7, 1910, by flying two bolts of dress silk 65 miles (105 km) from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, for the Morehouse-Martens Department Store, which paid a $5,000 fee.

  5. Huffman Prairie - Wikipedia

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    Huffman Prairie, also known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field or Huffman Field is part of Ohio's Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park.The 84-acre (34-hectare) patch of rough pasture, near Fairborn, northeast of Dayton, is the place where the Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville) undertook the task of creating a dependable, fully controllable airplane and training themselves to be pilots.

  6. Amos Root - Wikipedia

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    Amos Root was born in Medina, Ohio on December 9, 1839. [1] He began working as a jewelry manufacturer and took up beekeeping in his 20s as a hobby. Among his major contributions was a method to harvest honey without destroying the beehive.

  7. Wright Company - Wikipedia

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    The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright brothers, established by them on November 22, 1909, in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane.

  8. List of city nicknames in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Birthplace of Aviation (commemorates the Wright brothers, who invented the airplane in their bicycle shop in Dayton) [40] Little Detroit [41] [42] Dirty Dayton; The DYT; Delphos – America’s Friendliest City [19] Deshler – Corn City [citation needed] Dublin – The Emerald City

  9. John T. Daniels - Wikipedia

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    Retired Captain John T. Daniels at wreath laying ceremonies at The Wright Brothers National Memorial December 18, 1941 1938 photograph of John T. Daniels right, with Adam Etheridge on dedication day for Wright Brothers house and bicycle shop at Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan

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