Sebastian Lozano AP World History Period 4 Kelly 18-11-16 Annotated bibliography NHD Taking a Stand in History 2017 Topic- The Wright Brothers Thesis- The Wright Brothers took a stand in history by not only creating the first airplane but by developing aviation technology that influenced the modern world air travel Primary Sources - "Wright Brothers Information Packet: Orville Wright's December 17, 1903 Diary Entry - Special Collection & Archives." Wright State University Libraries, University Libraries, www.libraries.wright.edue/special/wrightbrothers/packet/orville. Accessed 27 Nov. 2016. "Wright Brothers Information Packet: Primary Sources - Special Collection & Archives." Wright State University Libraries, www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wrightbrothers/packet/primary. …show more content…
West Side News. photograph. Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/flight/pdf/newspaper.pdf. Accessed 12 Dec. 2016. Secondary sources- Benson, Tom. "Overview of the Wright Brothers' Invention Process." Re-Living the Wright Way -- NASA, 12 June 2014, wright.nasa.gov/overview.htm. Accessed 22 Nov. 2016. 2) "The Decade After." Home Page for the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company and Wright-brothers.org, www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Decade_After/Decade_After_Intro/Decade_After_Intro.htm. Accessed 22 Nov. 2016. Wright, Wilbur, and Orville Wright, photographer. [1901 glider being flown as a kite, Wilbur at left side, Orville at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]. [1901] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . Accessed 29 Nov. …show more content…
This is a secondary source because although Wilbur and Orville wright are being photographed in the picture, someone else was behinds he camera. "The Wright Brothers | The Aerial Age Begins." National Air and Space Museum |, Alcoa, airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/age/. Accessed 30 Nov. 2016. This edu website describes how the impact of invention of the airplane by the wright brothers created a new world of technology. It proves my thesis because it explains how commercial & potential of aviation came to being because of the wright brothers. This is a secondary source because it draws conclusions from primary sources and because it's a review of what happen and what came into being. "Orville Wright." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2016, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/248217. Accessed 30 Nov. 2016. In this biography, it goes from 1871-1948 talking about wright brothers: Wilbur and Orville and the steps to creating the plane, etc. It proves my thesis because after the success at Kitty Hawk they later used their airplane as a business enterprise. This is a secondary source because it was not written by either Wilbur or
Lindbergh’s passion for mechanics didn’t come as a surprise to many. As a young boy, Charles seemed to be very interested in the family’s motorized vehicles, such as the Saxon Six automobile and Excelsior motorbike. But after starting college in the fall of 1920 as a mechanical engineer, his love for aviation started to bloom. Deciding that the field of aviation was more exciting, he dropped out within 2 years. He then decided to take lessons at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation’s flying school and was up in the air for the first time on April 9, 1922 when he was in a two seat biplane as a passenger. But his solo flight would not be until May 1923 at the Souther Field in Americus, Georgia, an old flight training field where Lindbergh came to buy a World War I Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplane. It only took half an hour to practice with another pilot at the field to decide that Lindbergh was ready to fly the plane himself. After a week of practicing, Lindbergh took off on his biplane on his first solo cross country flight and few weeks after that, achieving his first nighttime flight near Arkansas, both marking huge milestones for the young pilot.
The history of flying dates back as early as the fifteenth century. A Renaissance man named Leonardo da Vinci introduced a flying machine known as the ornithopter. Da Vinci proposed the idea of a machine that had bird like flying capabilities. Today no ornithopters exist due to the restrictions of humans, and that the ornithopters just aren’t practical. During the eighteenth century a philosopher named Sir George Cayley had practical ideas of modern aircraft. Cayley never really designed any workable aircraft, but had many incredible ideas such as lift, thrust, and rigid wings to provide for lift. In the late nineteenth century the progress of aircraft picks up. Several designers such as Henson and Langley, both paved the way for the early 1900’s aircraft design. Two of the most important people in history of flight were the Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers were given the nickname the “fathers of the heavier than air flying machine” for their numerous flights at their estate in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville and Wilbur Wright created a motor-powered biplane in which they established incredible feats of the time. The Wright Brothers perfected their design of the heavier than air flying ma...
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Beauty – it’s all around us. Some people may not realize it, but the beauty of this city is in the history of the buildings and its houses. Any native or visitor can see the charm of the Queen City, but how many people have ever stopped to wonder where the original designs came from? Who built the house of Buffalo? Without a great architect who was ahead of his time, Buffalo would just not be as charming as a city. Frank Lloyd Wright made great contributions to places all over the United States and even overseas. Buffalo is lucky enough to be home to several of Wright’s many designs and creations. Not only did Frank Lloyd Wright design houses, he was the architect of the Larkin Administration Building, which was his first major commercial commission ever to be built (Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex). The Darwin Martin House complex, the Graycliff Estate, a boathouse mausoleum on the Erie Basin Marina, and several private homes for Larkin Soap Company executives, were all built in Buffalo. These constructions were all of Wright’s designs that have contributed to the Buffalo landscape. While Wright has made an impact on Buffalo’s history and beautiful architecture, he has also made an impact all over the globe. From California to Tokyo, Frank Lloyd Wright and his designs are world renown. With several awards and different recognitions, he is arguably the greatest American architect of his time.
While the brothers were discovering and how to make a plane glide and ultimately how to make it fly, they kept returning to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to test their ideas once the constructed them in the back of their bicycle shop. Over the course of four years the encountered “violent storms, accidents, disappointment, public indifference, and clouds of mosquitoes” and many other setbacks that would have shoken other inquiring pioneers (McCullough 106). Nevertheless, the challenges both nature and man-made never stood a chance to the Wright Brother’s endurant nature. Their determination and ability to discover the problem and attend to it quickly were some of the reasons they got farther than other
Wilbur was the older brother born in Millville, Indiana 1867 and Orville was born after him in Dayton, Ohio 1871. (Cite) Wilbur and Orville were very close and both enjoyed tinkering and had an interest in learning how mechanical devices worked. These interests lead them to their future career in working with bicycles and eventually lead them to the idea of flying. The brothers started off by entering the newspaper business. Orville built a printing press and started the newspaper the West Side News. (Cite) Wilbur, who was undecided, joined him. But as the career in newspaper began to slow down, the brothers began to look for another way to earn a living and like much of America fell in love with bicycling. Wilbur and Orville began to think that a career in the bicycling business would provide a better income. They began a bicycle shop where they would sell, rent, and repair bicycles. In the summer of 1896 though, Orville was diagnosed with typhoid fever. While Orville was sick, Wilbur would discuss the news with his brother. One day he came across the news of Otto Lilienthal who had been killed in a glider crash. The idea of flying had been an interest to the brothers when they were children, and as Orville began to heal, the brothers discussed the idea of flying and the ...
The evidence shows that because of the Wright brothers' methods of testing, and their focus on developing lift and control, they were able to beat the crowd of enthusiastic aviation experimenters in the race for flight. Wilbur and Orville Wright were two men who worked very hard in understanding and putting to work the principles of flight in building a successful and practical aircraft. All their hard work paid off when, on that historic day in 1903, they finally made the first powered flight. The Wright brothers' invention has changed the world, and they will always be remembered as the two men who flew first.
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The Wright brothers were engineers and pioneers of aviation. Wilbur Wright was born April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana. He was the middle child in a family of five children. His father, Milton Wright, was a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. His mother was Susan Catherine Koerner. When Wilbur was a child, his playmate was his younger brother, Orville Wright, born in 1871. The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, and controlled airplane flight. They surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical plane.
1 Years with Frank Lloyd Wright: Apprentice to Genius by Edgar Tafel- McGraw-Hill Education (April 1979)
Planes have developed immensely through the years. The Wright brothers developed the first plane in 1903.
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The trials and tribulations of flight have had their ups and downs over the course of history. From the many who failed to the few that conquered; the thought of flight has always astonished us all. The Wright brothers were the first to sustain flight and therefore are credited with the invention of the airplane. John Allen who wrote Aerodynamics: The Science of Air in Motion says, “The Wright Brothers were the supreme example of their time of men gifted with practical skill, theoretical knowledge and insight” (6). As we all know, the airplane has had thousands of designs since then, but for the most part the physics of flight has remained the same. As you can see, the failures that occurred while trying to fly only prove that flight is truly remarkable.
The invention of the airplane, ever since it was invented in 1903 has impacted the world in many ways. It has increased the job rate, boosted the economy, created cultural diversion, and created less pollution than most means of travel. Orville Wright once said, “The airplane stays up because it doesn't have time to fall.” The airplane never did fall and excelled in everything it did, not falling once. The airplane, one of the most important inventions created in the 20th century, impacted travel ways across the world.
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