... 3-D models of its artifacts are printed and housed in classrooms and exhibits. Otherwise, its growing digital archive, including 3-D renderings of the Wright Brothers' first airplane, a Revolutionary gunboat and a woolly mammoth fossil, is available to view online. So far, 20 objects have been scanned. "The ...
... s indulging. The former history professor is also making time on the trail to take in America's landmarks. After months of talking about the Wright brothers in his stump speech, Gingrich stopped in Dayton, Ohio, last month to tour Orville Wright's home. "That was fun," Gingrich remarked as ...
... GINGRICH (R): I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I just want you to know, Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright brothers going down to Kitty Hawk was grandiose. John F. Kennedy standing there saying we'll get to the moon in eight years was ...
... without using embryos or women's eggs. Robert Lanza, a leading researcher on embryonic cells, called it a "scientific milestone, the biological equivalent of the Wright brothers' first airplane." On the other side, Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called it a "very significant breakthrough that ...
... blackberry has about half a billion. RAY SUAREZ: The chairman of Texas Instruments said in my opinion there are only a handful of people whose works have truly transformed the world and the way we live in it: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and Jack Kilby. Fair comment?
... These lines now represent old science and old technology. It's like trying to launch an aviation program being told you have to use the Wright Brothers' first copy. GWEN IFILL: But based on what we know about the status of this research now there actually a shortage of stem ...
... of every airplane that flew subsequently. For example, a modern passenger airliner or a military jet fighter fly in exactly the same way as the Wright brothers' airplane did. It may look a little strange, the Wright flyer, it doesn't look like a modern airplane, but in terms of ...
... replaced. They also hope even NASA might one day be a customer, paying Sea Launch to re-supply the international space station. As for the X Prize, organizers hope a team will make a successful manned launch sometime this year, the centennial of the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk.
... Brothers – how many times did they fail before they finally flew? We wouldn’t have airplanes if we said, "oh, my goodness, the Wright Brothers’ flight didn’t fly; it crashed, therefore, let’s not try again." There’s never been an advanced research ...
... depicting important events in American history. The most recent of them depicts the first successful flight of a man in a powered aircraft by the brothers Wright 108 years ago. The depiction in addition to the craft and the responsible individuals includes an American bald eagle carrying an olive branch ...
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