Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed air museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., where the Spirit of St. Louis will be rolled to rest after her current journeys, the world's first airplane may be forever a notable absentee. Last week the machine in which the Wright Brothers made their inaugural flight at Kittyhawk, N. C., in 1903, started for a London museum...
Patriots pounced upon Orville Wright in Dayton crying: "Why?" Mr. Wright had his reasons. The first was the Kittyhawk flight. The second was famed Samuel Pierpont Langley, onetime secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Able Langley had made many experiments in aviation including the construction of a machine capable of sustaining man in flight. When, some years gone, the Smithsonian wrote the Wrights for a machine, the original "wings of man" was offered. It was gently refused with the suggestion that a later Wright machine might be preferable. It seems that the Smithsonian, honoring their secretary, had already in residence...
Institution, gravely regretted Mr. Wright's decision. He said the wording on the Langley placard had been altered; that the brothers Wright had long ago been presented by the Institution with the Langley Medal for "the first successful flight...
Transportation is essentially a matter of horses. First the two-legged human horse; then the four-legged horse; then the iron horse; now the air horse. Conspicuous ' among air horses is the Wright Whirlwind motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty...
...honored by a place upon Dr. Ludwig's great all American Four or Five. In the four already chosen he has picked representatives of four types of eminence. Edison has served mankind. Jane Addams has helped save it. John D. Rockefeller represents genius and one kind of power. Orville Wright personifies Homeric daring. The fifth choice will probably be one who represents per-eminently the elusive spirit of America. There will doubtless be many suggestions, but the choice might well narrow down to the name of Alfred E. Smith and Andrew J. Volstead as the two men who at present...