the wright brothers. ede 417-01 miranda walker & heather woessner
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The Wright Brothers
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EDE 417-01
Miranda Walker&
Heather Woessner
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Wilbur Wright
• Born in Millville, Indiana, on April 16, 1867
• Died from typhoid fever at the age of 45
Wilbur- 13 years old
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Facts about Wilbur
• Presented an independent personality
• Never graduated from high school• Loved to read and write!
“I have always thought I would like to be a teacher.…”
-Wilbur Wright
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Orville Wright• Born in Dayton
on August 19, 1871
• Died at the age of 76 from a heart attack
Orville- 9 years old
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Facts about Orville
• Developed an interest in technology and science early in life
• More of an inventor than Wilbur• Very shy but a class clown• Never graduated from high school
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• In 1884 the Wright Family moved to Dayton
• 7 Hawthorne Street Dayton, Ohio
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The West Side Newspaper
• In 1889 the Wright Brothers started the West Side News
• It was a weekly newspaper that Wilbur and Orville Wright published briefly in 1889 and 1891
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The Wright Cycle Company
• In 1893 The Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop that allowed them to rent and repair bicycles.
• Only 5 of the Wright Brothers’ bicycles exist to this day.
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The Van Cleve sold for $65
The St. Claire sold for $42.50
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The Beginning• The Wright Brothers developed
their plans for a flying machine from bicycle concepts
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Kitty Hawk
Wright Flyer 1“ On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, the Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.”
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• This stopwatch was used to time the Wright Brothers’ flights at Kitty Hawk
• The first successful flight was 12 seconds long and covered 120 feet
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Huffman Prairie
• Travel to Kitty Hawk was tedious• The Wright Brothers found a local
cow pasture just outside of Dayton where they could extend their experiments and practices
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• The farmer who owned Huffman Prairie didn’t not charge rent to the brothers but he insisted that they make sure the farm animals were out of the way first!
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Wright Flyer 2• The Wright Flyer 2 worked well • However, Wilbur and Orville still found it
difficult to control • On October 20, 1904 the Wright Brothers
flew the first complete circle in an aircraft• The flight was 1 minute, 36 seconds and
covered 4,080 feet
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Wright Flyer 3• The Wright Flyer 3 was much easier to
control• The Wright Brothers began to stay in
the air for longer and longer periods of time
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The Ending
• In 1905, the Wright Brothers’ experimental period ended
• With their third powered airplane, they now routinely made flights lasting several minutes
• On October 5, Wilbur made an amazing flight in which he circled the field 30 times in 39 minutes for a total distance of 24 1/2 miles
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Read about the Wright Brothers!
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Websites• http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/first.htm • http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/
wright.html • http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/index_full.cfm
• http://www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Wright_Brothers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
• http://www.localhangar.com/cgi-bin/clubs/pictures_pages.pl?CLUBNO=6&CATID=33
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