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Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers, Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) were two aviation pioneers credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first airplane.

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The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Call Number: 92 W952ma 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Birdmen by Lawrence Goldstone
Call Number: 629.130092 G624b
Publication Date: 2014
Into the Blue by Joseph J. Corn (Editor)
Call Number: 813.509356 I61
Publication Date: 2011
Wings of Opportunity by Julie Williams
Call Number: 629.132 W724w
Publication Date: 2010
Chasing Icarus by Gavin Mortimer
Call Number: 629.1309 M888c
Publication Date: 2009
Conquering the Sky by Larry E. Tise
Call Number: 629.130092 T613c
Publication Date: 2009
Inventing Flight by John David Anderson
Call Number: 629.13009 A547i
Publication Date: 2004
First Flight by T. A. Heppenheimer
Call Number: 92 W952h
Publication Date: 2003
Race to the Sky by Stephen B. Goddard
Call Number: 629.130072073 G578r
Publication Date: 2003

Wright Brothers' Invention of 1903 Propeller and Genesis of Modern Propeller Theory by Trent Carroll and Thomas Carroll.
Journal of Aircraft 42, no. 1:218-223 January-February 2005.
The First Military Airplane by Rebecca Grant.
Air Force Magazine 87, no. 4:74-79 April 2004.
Aviation Pioneers by Charles J. Gross.
National Guard 57, no. 11:28-30 December 2003.
Dawn at Kill Devil Hill by Rebecca Grant.
Air Force Magazine 86, no. 12:22-28 December 2003.
From Infant Technology to Obsolescence: The Wright Brothers' Airplane in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1905-1915 by A. Timothy Warnock.
Air Power History 49, no. 4:46-57 Winter 2002.

The Wright Brothers: Would Their Patent Survive Today's Patent Law Rigors? Doubtful by Charles Shifley.
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 100:12-24 2018.