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The Wright Brothers
Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, India in 1867. He and his younger brother Orville made simple mechanical toys. They built a large printing press in 1888. The next year, they printed a newspaper in Dayton, Ohio. It was call West Side News.
Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1871. In 1901 his big improvement for aircraft was the development of the wind tunnel.
In September 1900 at Kill Devil Hills, they tried out their own glider. In 1901,they tested outy air pressure over 200 different wing surfaces. In 1902, at Kitty Hawk, they discovered a plane could be balanced better with a pilot than with various engineering devices.
In 1903, they made the first propeller, which was 35% more effective than other propellers of the time. After that they built a 247kg airplane with a 12 horsepower motor. They then made the first powered flight in History. In 1908, Wilbur set a new distance and altitude record for flight in France. In 1910, Orville completed 57 circles at an altitude of 36.6 metres. He also formed the Wright exhibition team, in which pilots which Orville had trained performed in Wright planes. This same year, Wilbur tried to produce a plane that would fly for 10 minutes at a speed of 40mph.
Wilbur died on May 30th, 1913 of Typhoid Fever. After his brother's death, Orville became president of the American Wright Company and three years later, he sold his stock for $500,000. Orville died in Dayton, Ohio on 30th January, 1948.
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