Photo courtesy of Library of Congress On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took flight for 12 seconds in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Learn how they controlled their aircraft with NOVA's Wright brothers interactive.
... Abraham Lincoln on how to improve the Gettysburg Address: "Say 87 years ago instead of fourscore and seven," he advised. Another favorite was "Merchandising the Wright Brothers," in which he tried to persuade the aviation pioneers to start an airline, although he acknowledged the distance of their maiden flight could ...
... is popular with the GOP's right-flank activist base of voters, positioned his long-shot campaign alongside the history of American innovators including the Wright brothers, urging his colleagues to elect him to the speakership. McCarthy himself rose in the chamber to nominate Jordan, portraying him as a skilled ...
... 70s and 80s, he indulged his affection for Paris with the 2011 release "The Greater Journey" and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015. Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian ...
... is due back with the four on April 19. Connor is honoring Ohio’s air and space legacy, taking up a fabric swatch from the Wright brothers’ 1903 Kitty Hawk flyer and gold foil from the Apollo 11 command module from the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta ...
... American culture," The Associated Press has learned. The medal is one of the nation's highest civilian honors and past recipients include George Washington, the Wright Brothers, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Dalai Lama. "The world is a whole lot cooler because ...
... the future. It is part of a special "NOVA" documentary tonight. Miles O'Brien: Chandler Airport in Fresno, California has been in operation since the Wright brothers era, aviation 1.0. Today, the art deco glory has faded, but Joseph Oldham is using this old, underutilized place to help launch ...
... just add one more thing. This is an unprecedented move. But we have been here before. A century ago, the United States government broke the Wright brothers' patents in their airplane flight technology, because it was critical to our war effort in World War I. And, again, we're at ...
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.