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Title: The Wright Brothers


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The Wright Brothers
  • American Dreams

Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary
Content Source A Story of US An Age of
Extremes, Joy Hakim
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  • On December 17, 1903, two men flew. They were
    brothers from Dayton, Ohio, and they owned a
    bicycle shop. Neither had graduated from high
    school.

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  • Their names were Wilbur and Orville Wright.

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  • It was not luck that made them the first persons
    in history to build and fly and airplane that
    lifted off the ground with its own power. It was
    hard work and determination.

1903 Horizontal 4-Cyclinder Engine
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  • Before they built that plane, they studied all
    that was known about flying. They thought,
    argued, and experimented.

Leonardo Davincis Ideas on Flight
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  • They built a wind tunnel and tested 200
    differently shaped wings. Then they carefully
    built their plane.

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  • When they flew, it was from Kill Devil Hill at
    Kitty Hawk, on North Carolinas Outer Banks. In
    1803, Kitty Hawk was an empty sandy beach.

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  • On that windy December day, Orville won the toss
    of a coin. He got to fly first, lying flat on his
    stomach on the wing of the kite-like biplane.

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  • Wilbur ran beside him as the plane lifted a few
    feet above the sand and stayed in the air for 17
    seconds.

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  • The brothers took turns and flew four flights
    that day. The longest lasted 59 seconds. Man had
    flown.

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  • Men from the lifeboat station had seen them and
    taken a picture. The headlines in the morning
    newspaper, told of the flight, although most of
    the details were wrong.

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  • The headlines in the morning local newspaper,
    told of the flight, although most of the details
    were wrong. Other newspapers didnt bother to
    print the story, no one paid much attention.

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  • Orville and Wilbur went home to Dayton and set to
    work. They knew they could fly, but they knew
    their plane needed improving.

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  • In addition, they needed to learn to be pilots,
    more practice in the air. So they flew around a
    big pasture in Ohio.

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  • Only a few people believed that men were actually
    flying. Most people just did not want to believe
    that men could fly.

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  • When reporters arrived to witness the
    manned-flight , the brothers were having
    mechanical problems with their plane. The upset
    reporters stayed two days, with no flights to
    witness.

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  • Some reporters wrote that the Wright Brothers
    were fakes.

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  • Finally, in August 1908, Wilbur went to Europe to
    fly his plane at a racetrack in France. This
    time, there were 24 witnesses. They went wild,
    throwing their hats in the air.

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  • The next Monday, 4,000 people were at the
    racetrack to watch him fly. The news went
    worldwide.

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  • A month later, in Virginia, Orville showed
    Americans that people could fly. He lifted his
    plane into the air and swung around an army field
    one and a half times before he landed.

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  • The crowd of watchers rushed forward screaming
    as loudly as they could, overwhelmed by the
    miracle that had taken place before their eyes.

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  • For thousands and thousands of years, men and
    women looked at birds and dreamed that they, too,
    could fly into the air. The dream was now reality.

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  • Suddenly, the two shy brothers were celebrities.
    They were carried in parades and toasted at
    banquets. Kings and presidents invited them for
    visits.

Parade in Wright Bros. Hometown of Dayton, Ohio.
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  • Merchants began to sell Wilbur and Orville caps
    and merchandise. Finally, everyone believed that
    people could fly.

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  • Three problems needed solving in order for people
    to fly. Scientists called them lift, propulsion,
    and control.

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  • The Wright brothers needed to find a way to lift
    a plane into the air and keep it there they
    needed to propel the plane forward and they
    needed to control the flight, to turn, to climb,
    to land.

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  • Those problems had baffled some of the greatest
    scientific minds of all time. The Wright
    brothers, two high-school dropouts, solved these
    problems.

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  • If men and women could fly, anything might be
    possible.

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  • Never giving up on your dreams is the greatest
    gift the Wright Bros. gave to the American people.

President Theodore Roosevelt takes a ride in an
airplane.
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