Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilbur Wright died (if typhoid fever...
Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first flights at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on Dec. 17, 1903. For more than 20 years, the machine they used has been faithfully guarded, kept intact. Last week, Orville, the surviving brother,* announced that he was presenting this relic of man's first flight to the Science Museum at South Kensington, London, where a large collection of historic planes and engines already exists. Mr. Wright naturally seeks greater safety against damage and fire than his own home affords. But why a foreign museum ? Why not the Smithsonian Institution in Washington...
...matter of fact, in 1914, during litigation between the Wrights and the Curtiss Co., Langley's machine with some changes was flown at Hammondsport on Lake Keuka, N. Y. It is difficult to determine what exactly the changes were. But Mr. Wright resents the fact that the Smithsonian allowed Langley's precious model to be used for "the purpose of private parties to a patent litigation." And he also resents the card in the Smithsonian attached to the Langley plane- This is the first airplane capable of flight...
...away to England, the Wright plane is destined...
Americans who are trying to keep Orville Wright from giving his first airplane to an English museum should let him do it. For the last twenty years England has been watching wealthy Americans carry off pictures, priceless manuscripts, even entire houses, because the British could not compete with the American rate of bidding. The Wright plane may form the nucleus of a collection of commercial masterpieces, and if the National Museum of Engineering, through its secretary, urges that it is distinctively American, and hence should remain here, the English can reply that then the products of Reynolds and Gainsborough...