Wilbur Wright Essay

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On April 16, 1867, and August 19, 1871 the world changed and nobody even knew it yet; those were the days when two of the smartest human beings in the world were born. On April 16, a child named Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, Indiana and on August 19, his brother Orville Wright was born in Dayton Ohio. Over time the family grew stronger and stronger, basically getting better by the year, instead of going into a decline. As Wilbur and Orville grew up, they took most of their mechanical advice from their mother, and all their intellectual advice from their father, who worked in a church. As their father worked for the church he brought home numerous things for them. One day when he finished work he went to go buy a toy helicopter for the two brothers and that forever changed the world. When he did this it enlightened the Wright brothers into an interest in the art of flying. When they received their toy, the design of it was based of a man in France named Alphonse Penaud., in which made big strides in the art of flying, during the 1860s and 1870s. Alphonse Penaud developed a Planophore in which was suitable to fly only for a short period of a time. When their father Milton Wright moved their family to Richmond, Indiana it was all because of his job in which he became a circuit preacher. When he did this he became big on publishing religious newspapers. After it got big he invented a machine in which folded papers strictly for mailing letters and that showed perseverance for engineering. After he did the folding machine, the Wright family moved back to Dayton, Ohio in 1884. When the Wright brothers got settled in with their new life in Dayton, Ohio, things went very well for them. Wilbur a complete stud and was going to get a ... ... middle of paper ... ...e called the elevator in which controlled all of the vertical angles of the nose; and finally they added the key piece which was a moveable rudder, which had to connect to the wing warping mechanism to stop the airplane from going out of control and to control the planes forward movement. As Orville and Wilbur tested the third glider in North Carolina, the airplane flew around 622 feet in an incredible time of twenty six seconds. When there gliders were a complete success, it made it the world’s controllable air craft. The Wright Brothers were not finished though, because they still needed to make a propulsion system; so they built an engine with a ton of help from a mechanic. He had to help devise a transmission and a big set of propellers for their plane by at least the 1930’s. At first they tested the aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina late September 1903.

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