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2. The Wright Stuff (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Wright Stuff is a 1996 television documentary film about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who invented the first successful motor-powered airplane.Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now simply American Experience) documentary program, it recounts the lives of the Wright brothers from their early childhood in Ohio with dreams of flight to their subsequent fame after their ...

3. The Winds of Kitty Hawk - Wikipedia

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   The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged. At the start of the 20th century, bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. Three years and dozens of crashes later, the Wright brothers solve the technical problems that had ...

4. Wright brothers - Wikipedia

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   The Wright Brothers' U.S. Patent 821,393 issued 1906. The Wright brothers wrote their 1903 patent application themselves, but it was rejected. In January 1904, they hired Ohio patent attorney Henry Toulmin, and on May 22, 1906, they were granted U.S. Patent 821393 [12] for "new and useful Improvements in Flying Machines

5. Charlie Taylor (mechanic) - Wikipedia

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   Charles Edward Taylor (May 24, 1868 – January 30, 1956) was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer, and was a vital contributor of mechanical skills in the building and maintaining of early Wright engines and airplanes.

6. Octave Chanute - Wikipedia

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   The Frieze of American History detail The Birth of Aviation is displayed in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, and depicts Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Langley, Octave Chanute, the Wright Brothers, and their pioneering Wright Flyer. The town of Chanute, Kansas, [14] is named after Chanute. Three small towns in southeast Kansas were vying for the railroad's ...

7. The Wright Brothers (book) - Wikipedia

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   The Wright Brothers is a 2015 non-fiction book written by the popular historian David McCullough and published by Simon & Schuster. It is a history of the American inventors and aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright. [1] The book was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list for seven weeks in 2015. [2]

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9. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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   The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and currently has over 120 million views and almost 5 million likes. [15] [16] Hurley was behind the look of the website, creating the logo. [17]