Wilbur Wright

Standard Name: Wright, Wilbur

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Textual Features Gertrude Stein
As well as landscape, she also meditates here on space, literature, democracy, superstition, propaganda, national belonging, and identity. (The old woman said I am I because my little dog knows me, but the dog...

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27 July 1901: Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first...

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27 July 1901

Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first set of test glides near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
153

17 December 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright of Ohio completed...

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17 December 1903

Orville and Wilbur Wright of Ohio completed their historic flight (the world's first powered, sustained, controlled aeroplane flight) with Flyer I at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
158
Guardian Weekly.
(30 March-5 April 2000): 22

8 August 1908: The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville,...

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8 August 1908

The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville , made their first public flight, round a racecourse at Le Mans in France, nearly five years after their first powered flight in North Carolina.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 August 2016

16 October 1908: Samuel F. Cody of the US was the first to...

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16 October 1908

Samuel F. Cody of the US was the first to fly an airplane in the British Isles; he took off from Farnborough, Hampshire.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
46
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
340
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 August 2012

16 March 1926: A rocket designed by Robert Goddard at Clark...

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16 March 1926

A rocket designed by Robert Goddard at Clark University , Worcester, Massachusetts, made the first free flight of a liquid-fuelled rocket.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
206
Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.
198

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