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Wilbur Wright was born near Millville, Indiana.
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Orville Wright is born in Dayton, Ohio.
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The Wright brothers build their first aircraft , a rubber-band powered helicopter they called a "bat"
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Due to a sports injury, causing health problems, Wilbur can't go to college.
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Orville starts a printing business while still in high school.
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Orville publishes a newspaper called the "West Side News". Wilbur joins in and becomes the editor. The newspaper business wasn't bringing much profit, so the brothers return to "job" printing.
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The brothers befin to sell and repair bycicles.
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The brothers manufactured their own bycicles, The "St. Claire" and the "Van Cleve".
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The brothers take interest in "flight problem".
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Wilbur creates an areodynamic control system for aircrafta and builds a kite to test it.
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The brothers fly gliderds at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina refining their control system. At home in Dayton, Ohio, they build a wind tunnel and conduct research on wing shapes.
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The Wright Brothers make the first controlled, sustained powered flights at Kitty Hawk.
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The brothers make a practical airplane in Dayton.
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The Wright Brothers demonstrate a two-passenger airplane in Europe and in America.
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The brothers begin manufacturing airplanes.
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Wilbur Wright dies of typhiod in Dayton, Ohio.
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Orville Wright sells his airplane company.
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The Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk is dedicated.
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The Wright Home and Bycicle shop is opened to the public at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
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Orville Wright dies of a heart attack in Dayton, Ohio.
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The Wright Brothers first powered airplane, 1903 "Flyer", is enshrined at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
