Wright Brothers History: The Tale of the Airplane
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Aerospace Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): |
Gary Bradshaw
Organization: Wright-House |
| Description: | Article posted on the Wright-House website, organized around the following topics: * A Puritan Fairy Tale * Starting at the Top * The Design and Test Strategy of Invention * Doing it Wright * The Dark, Unhappy Ending * For more information... * Bibliography. Excerpt: "Against this backdrop, we see the Wright brothers efforts to develop an airplane, plotted in green on Figure 1. The Wrights first craft in 1900 was approximately equal to the best that had been done prior to that time. They made steady progress in 1901 and 1902. The 1902 glider was the first truly effective heavier-than-air craft. In 1903 the Wrights created their first powered craft, which successfully flew on December 17, 1903. More capable airplanes were developed in 1904 and 1905, which culminated in their stunning European and American flights in 1908. Here it is apparent there is a real mystery in the invention of the airplane: How did the Wrights begin at the top of the field and make sustained progress when their contemporaries could not? Unlike mystery novels, there is no simple answer to the mystery, but the answer is fascinating and instructive nonetheless." |
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| Keywords: | Wright brothers, history of light |
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| Use of Resource: | history of technology |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | November 2007 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/taleplane.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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