U.S. Industrial Revolution follows the Industrial Revolution in England

Success encourages Imitation: The Revolution Spreads

To the Continent

To the United States

U.S. Industrialization begins in New England

Horse Power to Water Power

Second Industrial Revolution (1850-1914)

Transportation Revolution in U.S.

Steamboat / Canals / Railroads

Titans of Industry in the United States

Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroads

Andrew CarnegieSteel

John D. RockefellerOil

The Wright Brothers

Wilber Wright1867-1912

Orville Wright1871-1948

Wright brothers’ childhood

Wright Family Home7 Hawthorn Street West Dayton

West Side News Wright Cycle Company

Wright brothers’ early entrepreneurial spirit

Wright brothers’ interest in flight

Samuel Langley unmanned steam-powered flight

Wright 1899 Kite

Otto Lilienthal Glider

Wright Glider, 1901

The Problem of Flight

Wind Tunnel

Wing Warping

The Flight at Kitty Hawk, December, 1903

Flights at Huffman Prairie 1904, 1905

The Dayton Daily News, October, 1905, page 9

Wrights have trouble establishing legitimacy

The Paris edition of the International Herald Tribune headlined a 1906 article on the Wrights:

"FLYERS OR LIARS?"

Wrights demonstrate Flights publically, Virginia and France, 1908

Wrights’ Patent War

Wilber Wright Orville Wright Glenn Curtiss

Smithsonian Feud The Smithsonian Institute hoped to save Langley's aeronautical reputation by

proving the Aerodrome could fly

Modified Langley Aerodrome

Katherine Wright

The original Wright brothers aeroplaneThe world's first power-driven heavier-than-air machine in

which man made free, controlled, and sustained flightInvented and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright

Flown by them at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17, 1903

By original scientific research the Wright brothers discovered the principles of human flight

As inventors, builders, and flyers they further developed the aeroplane, taught man to fly, and opened the era of aviation.

1903 Flyer place at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C in 1948 (Returned from London)