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How Did The Wright Brothers Revolutionize The World

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Cameron Sesi English 1060 PE#2 Draft 2 14 December 2015 Hard Work Pays Off If you had the chance to change the world’s transportation would you do it? The Wright brothers had the chance to revolutionize the world and they took full advantage. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough shows how two young inventors worked hard to pursue their dreams. They were two brothers, Wilbur and Orville, and they were from a small town in Ohio. They started by working at a print shop, and then realized they wanted to open a business so they decide to open a bicycle shop that started to do well and made a lot of money. The brothers finally realized that they wanted to invent the first airplane so they started to invest most of their time to pursue their …show more content…

The Wright brothers spent a lot of time trying to invent the first airplane. They would work long days and spend a lot of money testing everything and they tried to figure out anything that could help them build their airplane such as, trying to find ways to make the money to help them build the airplane. They did not have a lot of money to just keep trying to build the airplane, and they got offered fifty thousand dollars from Octave Chanute but they refused his offer because they wanted to take all the credit for the airplane. “He also offered Wilber full use of a large room at his factory in which to assemble the Flyer, in addition to the help of some of his workers”( McCullough 161). That shows that many people were trying to offer help to the brothers as well as getting credit from the successful invention. The brothers were really struggling because their only income was from their bicycle shop, which did fairly well, but it costs a lot to build an airplane and a motor. They had the idea of building the airplane and they wanted to keep up the hard work because they did not want to waste their work and let someone else get credit for their …show more content…

It was not easy to be in innovator. Innovators needed to know a lot of information to make sure they are doing the right thing; there were a lot of people trying to accomplish some of the same things as the Wright brothers. The Brothers truly were innovators because they were the first people who successfully built and flew the first airplane, although many people and big companies with much more money to spend on parts than the Wright brothers had, but they still were the first to build the airplane with all of their disadvantages. “The brothers refused to show the delegation their Flyer III, but willingly provided photographs and eyewitness testimony of the plane in flight” (McCullough 132). The brothers tried to make sure that they are doing the right thing and see what they did wrong after each trial and they wanted to think about it before showing their work to

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