Wright's airplane ascension at Le Mans : manuscript, 1908.

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Wright's airplane ascension at Le Mans : manuscript, 1908.

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Three picture postcards from "Agnes," Chartres, France, to "Blanche," providing eyewitness description of Wilbur Wright's flight at Le Mans, France.

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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

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Wilbur Wright, born April 16, 1867 in Indiana, and his brother, Orville, were inventors of the airplane. The brothers were in the printing and bicycle business in Dayton before they became interested in solving the problems of powered flight. After a series of kite and glider experiments at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the brothers built and successfully flew the first heavier-than-air powered machine on Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights spent the next years improving their invention and in 1909, formed a company...

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George Musgrave Giger was classics professor at Princeton University, 1850-65. Francis Turretin (1623-1687) was a theologian. From the guide to the Microfilms of a Translation of Franois Turrettin, Institutio Theologiae Elencticae, 20th century (copies of 19th century originals), (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) ...