Famous People and Timelines: The Wright Brothers

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Famous People and Timelines The Wright Brothers

• Rachel Brand
• ED 417-01
• Early Childhood Social Studies Curriculum,
  Materials, and Philosophy

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Famous People and TimelinesThe Wright Brothers

• Third Grade
• Objectives
• Students will describe the lives of Orville and
  Wilbur Wright.
• Students will describe the history of early
  controlled flight.
• Students will construct a timeline.
• Students will show where Kitty Hawk, NC is in
  correlation to Dayton, OH

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Materials Needed

• The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk This is
  America Charlie Brown video.
• Internet connection and projector
• Paper for the airplanes
• Long paper for the timelines
• Arrangements to go to the National Museum of the
  U.S. Air Force

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The Wright Brothers The Beginning

• Sons of Milton and Susan Wright
• Married in 1859
• 7 children
• 1867 Wilbur is born near
• Millville, Indiana
• -Nicknames Will Ullam
• 1871 Orville is born in
• Dayton, Ohio
• -Nicknames Orv and Bubs

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Wright Brothers First Aircraft

• At the age of 7 and 11, Wilbur and Orville
  receive a souvenir from their fathers trip.
• The boys build toy helicopters modeled after the
  rubber band-powered toy helicopter gift.

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Wright Family Settles in Dayton

• Being the son of a Bishop, the Wright Brothers
  moved 12 times.
• Finally in 1884, the family
• made their final move
• back to Dayton.
• 7 Hawthorn Street
• Map from Fairborn Primary
• to the Wright Brothers old
• house

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The Printing Business

• In 1889, Orville opened his own print shop.
• In 1890, Wilbur joined him.

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Wright Cycle Company

• In 1892, Orville and Wilbur open a bike shop and
  begin selling and repairing bikes.
• They begin to manufacture their own bikesthe
  St. Clair and Van Cleve in 1895.
• Unlike the newspaper business, the bicycle
  business is profitable.

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Let the Inventions Begin

• Orville invents a machine that can multiply and
  divide in 1895
• In 1896, Wilbur realizes that all of the flying
  machines during that time lacked one thing
  control.
• Wilbur developed a kite to test his control
  system in 1899, and it worked
• This idea would be used for the gliders.

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Dayton, OH to Kitty Hawk, NC

• Ready to try their inventions, the Wright
  Brothers picked the perfect spot.
• Kitty Hawk, located on the shores of the Atlantic
  Ocean, provided strong winds to launch gliders
  and soft sand for cushioning their landings.
• It took the Wright Brothers one week to get there
  traveling by train, steamboat, and sailboat.
• Journey to Kitty Hawk, NC from Dayton, OH just
  like the Wright Brothers did.

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Disappointment at Kitty Hawk

• During 1900 the Wright Brothers tried to fly for
  the first time using the Glider they made at Kill
  Devil Hill where they set up shop.
• After about a dozen flights, they were only in
  the air for about 2 minutes total.
• Unsatisfied, in 1901, they created a larger
  Glider that reached distances from 20-400 feet.

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Experiments

• Disappointed with the 1900 and 1901 Gliders, they
  built a wind tunnel to experiment on for next
  time.
• Comic book for wind tunnel

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Wright Glider

• It was not until 1902 that the Wright Glider
  became the first aircraft to be successfully
  controlled in the air.

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Wright Flyer

• On December 17, 1903, they made the first
  sustained, controlled flight in a powered
  aircraft, the Wright Flyer.
• Despite this, it was underpowered and difficult
  to control.
• Flew in a straight line for 12 seconds.
• Heavier than air

First Flight, December 17, 1903. Orville is
flying the plane. Wilbur is standing at the
right.
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Huffman Prairie

• Worlds first test flight facility established
  here in 1904.
• By the end of 1905, the Wright Flyer is flying
  over Huffman Prairie making figure eights and
  staying in the air for over a half an hour or
  until the fuel runs out.
• This is the worlds first practical airplane
• This site is now the Wright Patterson Air Force
  Base.

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Patent Flying Machine

• In 1906 the Wright Brothers get a patent for a
  flying machine.

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Selling Planes

• In 1908, they modified the Wright Flyer to carry
  2 passengers.
• Doing this made the U.S. Army Signal Corps and
  then French Businessmen want one of their
  aircrafts.

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The Honor

• The Wright Brothers are presented the
  Congressional Medal for their inventions with
  airplanes in March of 1909.
• In June of 1909, a two-day celebration is held in
  Dayton for the Wright Brothers.

• In November of 1909,
• Wright Company is
• created for them to
• manufacture airplanes
• and to start flight schools.

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Wilbur Dies

• On May 30, 1912, Wilbur died after contracting
  typhoid

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Orville on His Own

• Orville sells Wright Company in 1916 and starts
  inventing again.
• President Wilson appoints him to be on the first
  board of National Advisory Committee for
  Aeronautics (NACA)later known as National Air
  and Space Administration (NASA)in 1920.

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Planes Brought Home

• In 1948, the 1903 Wright Flyer is brought back to
  America from Europe and is now in the Smithsonian
  Institute in Washington D.C.
• The Flyer III is put on display at Deeds Carillon
  Park in Dayton, Ohio in 1950.

Deeds Carillon Park
Smithsonian Institute
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Orville Dies

• On January 30, 1948 Orville dies of a heart
  attach while fixing his doorbell.

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Activities

• Watch The Wright Brothers at Ktty Hawk This is
  America Charlie Brown video, and discuss Orville
  and Wilburs lives.
• Use the links on the Powerpoint to look at and
  discuss where Kitty Hawk, NC is in comparison to
  Dayton, OH, where the Wright Brothers lived in
  comparison to where Fairborn Primary School is,
  and how people traveled before planes.

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Activities continued

• Have students work in small groups to create a
  timeline of Orville and Wilbur Wrights lives.
• Have students individually create a timeline of
  their own lives.
• Take a field trip to the National Museum of the
  U.S. Air Force.
• Have students work in small groups to create
  flying machines using only paper. Then have
  students individually write about where they
  would travel if they could fly on that plane.

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Links

• The Orville and Wilbur Wright Story
• http//www1.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/Wright1.html
• National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
• http//www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/
• The Wilbur and Orville Wright Timeline
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighttime.
  html
• The Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company of Dayton,
  Ohio
• http//www.first-to-fly.com/

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Links continued

• Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World
• http//www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/airplane.h
  tml
• Wright Brothers Digital Photos
• -http//dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?q1
  wrightbrothersrgn1ic_alltypebooleancwbcvi
  ewthumbnail
• Wright Flight
• http//pbskids.org/wayback/flight/feature_wright.h
  tml