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History and Science of Aviation
This guide contains resources about the Wright Brothers, the history of aviation and the science of flight.
Who was Orville Wright? This article describes the Wright Brothers scientific and inventive process as well as Orville's contributions to the science of aviation.
Find out about one of the two brothers who revolutionized transportation as we know it. This page is a biography of Orville Wright and provides information about how he and his brother Wilbur came to invent the airplane.
In this interview, Wright biographer and aeronautics historian Tom Crouch explains how a genius for engineering, perseverance, and their belief that they would succeed paid off for the Wright Brothers.
In this section from the Wright Brothers online exhibition from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, you can see a timeline of their lives and learn about the Wright Brothers.
This archival collection contains images of the Wright Brothers' early inventive period, documenting their early gliders and flight testing in both North Carolina and Ohio.
