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From: Georges Besancon
"La machine volante des frères Wright" L'Aerophile
Paris: Aux Bureaux de l'Aerophile, January 1904. Volume: 12 ; issue: 1: 16-18



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About this image: Wright Family home - 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Ohio, 1910

From: Fred C. Fisk ; Marlin W. Todd
Wright Brothers from bicycle to biplane: an illustrated history of the Wright brothers
Dayton, OH: F.C. Fisk and M.W. Todd, 1995. 128 p.



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About this image: Advertisement: Van Cleve bicycle, Wright Cycle Co.

From: Fred C. Fisk ; Marlin W. Todd
Wright Brothers from bicycle to biplane: an illustrated history of the Wright brothers
Dayton, OH: F.C. Fisk and M.W. Todd, 1995. 128 p.



This photographic print is from the original negative of the only picture taken of man's first flight, Kitty Hawk, N.C., December 17, 1903.
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About this image: First flight, Kitty Hawk, N.C.

From: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Dedication of the Wright brothers home and shop
Dearborn, MI: 1938. 62 p.



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About this image: Title Page

From: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Dedication of the Wright brothers home and shop
Dearborn, MI: 1938. 62 p.



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About this image: Wilbur Wright with Mrs. Edith Hart O. Berg

From: A. (Alfred) Hildebrandt (b. 1870)
Brüder Wright; eine Studie über die Entwicklung der Flugmaschine von Lilienthal bis Wright (The Wright Brothers)
Berlin: O. Elsner, 1909. 63 p.



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About this image: Holzerne starting rail (p. 39)

From: A. (Alfred) Hildebrandt (b. 1870)
Brüder Wright; eine Studie über die Entwicklung der Flugmaschine von Lilienthal bis Wright (The Wright Brothers)
Berlin: O. Elsner, 1909. 63 p.



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About this image: Wright brothers' control system - wing warping (p.63)

From: A. (Alfred) Hildebrandt (b. 1870)
Brüder Wright; eine Studie über die Entwicklung der Flugmaschine von Lilienthal bis Wright (The Wright Brothers)
Berlin: O. Elsner, 1909. 63 p.



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About this image: Title Page, showing signatures

From: Fred C. Kelly (1882-1959)
Wright brothers
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1943. 340 p.



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About this image: Title Page

From: Fred C. Kelly (1882-1959)
Wright brothers
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1943. 340 p.



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About this image: Title Page

From: Mary E. Knostman
Song of the Wright Boys
Dayton, Ohio: Reisbach & Knostman, 1909.



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About this image: Score

From: Mary E. Knostman
Song of the Wright Boys
Dayton, Ohio: Reisbach & Knostman, 1909.



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About this image: Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. - December 17, 1903

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Portrait of Otto Lilienthal

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Model of the Wright brothers' wind-tunnel

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Otto Lilienthal gliding

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Portrait of Orville Wright

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Portrait of Wilbur Wright

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Wright brothers' 1902 glider

From: National Air and Space Museum Archives



Credits: Courtesy of the NASM Archives


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About this image: Map of North Carolinia, 1896

From: Department of Agriculture North Carolina
North Carolina and its resources
Raleigh, NC: Winston, M.I. and J.C. Stewart, 1896.



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About this image: Title Page

From: Louis Térès
Wilbur Wright March
Paris: A. Costet, 1908.



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