Inventors & Engineers · Industrial
The Wright Brothers
Two Ohio bicycle makers who solved flight by solving control: wing warping, their own wind tunnel, the 1903 Kitty Hawk flights, the patent wars, and why method beat money (vs Langley).
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Key idea
Prereqs: Forces & motion. Next: Henry Ford; engineering design. Sources: David McCullough, *The Wright Brothers* (2015); Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Wilbur Wright's letters to Octave Chanute.Next: 1. Timeline