Wright brothers

By br3nn3n
  • Wilbur Wright born

    Wilbur Wright born

  • Orville was Born

    Orville was Born

  • toy Penaud helicopter.

    The toy inspires Wilbur and Orville’s first interest in flight.

  • Wright family moves to Richmond, Indiana,

    where Orville takes up kite-building.

  • Wright Family returns to Dayton

  • Orville begins to publish the weekly West Side News.

    Editor and publisher

  • Mother dies at age 58

  • Period: to

    Orville and Wilbur open a bicycle shop, the Wright Cycle Company

    business gives them the funds necessary to carry out their early aeronautical experiments.

  • Orville invents a calculating machine that multiplies and adds.

  • Period: to

    Orville seriously ill with typhoid fever

  • Otto Lilienthal, aeronautical pioneer, dies from injuries suffered crash while testing his latest single-surface glider. The tragedy renews the Wright brothers’ interest in Lilienthal and the problem of human flight.

    while testing his latest single-surface glider. The tragedy renews the Wright brothers’ interest in Lilienthal and the problem of human flight.

  • right brothers begin to manufacture their own brand of bicycles

  • Wilbur writes Smithsonian Institution inquiring about publications on aeronautical subjects.

  • Brothers write the U.S. Weather Bureau for information on an appropriate place to conduct flying experiments.

  • Wrights begin their experiments,

    flying their glider as a kite and as a man-carrying glider. About a dozen free flights are made

  • Chanute visits the Wrights at Kill Devil Hill and witnesses some of their glider experiments.

    until august 11

  • Wilbur addresses the Western Society of Engineers on the brothers’ 1900–01 gliding experiments.

  • Period: to

    Wrights conduct tests on airfoils and build a wind tunnel.

  • right brothers apply for a patent on their flying machine (patent issued May 22, 1906).

  • Period: to

    Wrights assemble their new glider

  • wrights conduct experiments with propellers and begin to build their 1903 four-cylinder engine.

  • Wrights apply for French and German patents on their airplane

  • U.S. Board of Ordnance and Fortification rejects the Wrights’ offer of sale of their airplane.

  • U.S. Patent Office grants the Wrights patent, No. 821,393, for a flying machine.

  • The Wright brothers’ contract with the United States government for the purchase of “one heavier than air flying machine