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he was born in Milville, Indiana. wilbur was the third oldest in the family. with two older simblings
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Wright family moves to Dayton, Ohio
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Orville Wright born.
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Wilbur and Orville's sister, Katharine Wright, born.
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Upon his return from a church business trip, Bishop Milton Wright brings home a toy Penaud helicopter. The toy inspires Wilbur and Orville's first interest in flight.
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Wright family moves to Richmond, Indiana, where Orville takes up kite-building
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Wilbur completes high school thast the reason they moved back
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Wilbur takes special postgraduate courses at Dayton Central High School and studies Greek and trigonometry.
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With his friend Ed Sines, Orville starts The Midget a school newspaper with a press given to him by his brothers and type from his father.
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Orville starts Dayton Central High School just like his brother
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Orville begins to publish the weekly West Side News. Editor and publisher he maintains an active interest in printing and publishing for several years.
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Wilbur and Orville's mother, Susan Catherine Koerner Wright, dies at age 58.
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Orville begins final year of high school as a special student in Latin. Leaves school before graduation.
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Wilbur and Orville start a weekly magazine, Snap Shots
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Wright brothers begin to manufacture their own brand of bicycles-- first the Van Cleve and the "Wright Special," and later the less expensive St. Clair.
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Brothers build and Wilbur flies a biplane kite in order to test the "wing-warping" method of controlling a flying machine.
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Brothers assemble the 1903 machine and install the engine
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Wilbur and Orville arrive in Washington, D.C. to resume trial flights at Fort Meyer for U.S. government.
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Wilbur dies of typhoid fever in Dayton.
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Orville sells his interest in the Wright Company but serves as consulting engineer.
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Orville dies of heart attack in Dayton