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Their father was a bishop so they moved very often. Wilbur was born in Millville in Indiana and Orvil was born on 19/08/1871 in Dayton, Ohio
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They both went to high school but they didn't get their diplomas
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Orvil drops out of school to start a printing business
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They start their first business together: a bicycle repair shop
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They wrote to the Smithsonian Institute asking information about aeronautics
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They went to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina for their first gliding experiments with pilots
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After many experiments they fly the first flying device with machine
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Although they had flown for a short time people didn't believe them. They had to convince the press and governments that they were not liars, bluffers. Wright Model A was the first one that took a passenger and both passenger and pilot sat upright.
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They created a company that would make airplanes using their patents.
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He became ill after a short trip. He died at 45.
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Orvil made his last flight that year. He had sold the Wright Company earlier on because he was more an inventor than a business man.
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Orvil continued working in aviation and consulting various boards and institutions. He received many awards and distinctions. He lived to see planes become war machines. He died after World War II
