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Orville Wright Brothers Research Paper

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Orville Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio, on August 19, 1871, while Wilbur was born on April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana. Orville Wright was considered the main genius behind designing the airplane. Neither of them attended college, Wilbur did not go because of a skating accident that he had, and both of them had to earn money after their mother’s death. Their heavier-than-air plane was made with eight years of research, and one-thousand dollars. The brothers were inventors throughout their entire lives; they created a printing press, a calculator that could multiply, and a simple typewriter. They also made several items which they never patented, to keep themselves occupied. Together, they started the industry of aviation worldwide, and they created the basic laws of aerodynamics. The Wrights got interested into aviation when Otto Lindenthal died. Otto Lindenthal made several flights with gliders, and he would experience a crash that would lead to his death. …show more content…

Octave would eventually publicise the Wright Brothers achievements. Specifically, the brothers could not find enough research on propellers, since the people who built it for ships never took records. By 1903, they created their first propellor called an airscrew, that was better than almost all other ships. Orville the plane at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. The Wright Brothers had achieved the first self-powered machine flight in history. In 1905, the brothers decided that the plane was fine tuned enough for military usage, and the rights of the plane were sold to the French. The brothers kept making improvements to the original design of the plane after 1905. Wilbur Wright would eventually die in 1912, after being diagnosed with typhoid fever. Orville Wright died of a heart attack in

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