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Wilbur Wright was born April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana.
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Orville Wright was born August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio.
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Susan Wright, Wilbur and Orville's mother, dies July 4, 1889.
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Orville and Wilbur open a bicyle shop. It gave them funds to pay for early experiments.
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The Wright brothers build and fly a byplane kite to test wing-warping.
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Wilbur writes to an areonautical pioneer and civil engineer named Octave Chanute. The two become close friends. Chanute dies in 1910.
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The Wright brothers start experimenting with a large glider in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. During the time they stay there, from fifty to one-hundred flight are made covering about twenty to four hundred feet before landing.
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The brothers have recently completed a new glider, and increase their longest flight distance to 622 feet.
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The brothers complete the first successful flight in a controlled, powered, heavier than air machine. It lasts 12 seconds, and travels 120 feet.
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On January 5, 1904, the brothers announced to the Associated Press of sucess of their flights.
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Wilbur Wright died May 30, 1912, in Dayton, Ohio, from typhoid fever. He lived to be 45 years old.
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Orville Wright died January 30, 1948 in Dayton, Ohio, his bithplace, from suffering a second heart attack. He was age 76.
