Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912

The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman ( Book )
32 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in English and held by 3,154 libraries worldwide
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Miracle at Kitty Hawk; the letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Wilbur Wright ( Book )
11 editions published between 1951 and 2002 in English and held by 806 libraries worldwide

The papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute by Wilbur Wright ( Book )
14 editions published between 1953 and 2001 in English and held by 468 libraries worldwide

The published writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Wilbur Wright ( Book )
6 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in English and held by 448 libraries worldwide
"Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young bring together for the first time nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings into a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their aircraft, early test flights, and camp life at Kitty Hawk. Other pieces discuss technical subjects, such as airplane stability and the relationship of weight, speed, and power. As the airplane evolved, the brothers frequently commented on such subjects as the future of commercial aviation and air travel, sport flying, air safety, and military aviation."--BOOK JACKET.

Photographs by the Wright Brothers : prints from the glass negatives in the Library of Congress : a micropublication commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers, December 17, 1903 by Wilbur Wright ( Book )
12 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 410 libraries worldwide

Flight into history; the Wright brothers and the air age by Elsbeth Estelle Freudenthal ( Book )
6 editions published between 1949 and 1992 in English and held by 375 libraries worldwide

The papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, including the Chanute-Wright letters and other papers of Octave Chanute by Wilbur Wright ( Book )
1 edition published in 1972 in English and held by 116 libraries worldwide

Communications and transportation ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 111 libraries worldwide
Explores the impact of the inventions of Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers, which established the foundation for today's giant communications and transportation industries.

The Wilbur and Orville Wright papers at the Library of Congress ( )
4 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 50 libraries worldwide
Documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright whose pioneering work led to the world's first powered, controlled, and sustained flight. Features correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wright brothers' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives.

The early history of the airplane by Orville Wright ( Book )
3 editions published between 1922 and 2008 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide
The Wright brothers, Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912), were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight in 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible. The brother's fundamental breakthrough was their invention of "three axis-control," which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and to maintain its equilibrium.