images

Abbott, Charles Greeley, 27, 235, 23638, 24042, 243, 246, 247

Addams, Jane, 95

Ader, Clement, 168

Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), 187

Aero Club de France, 168, 209

Aero Club of America, 18586

aerodromes (Langley flyer), 4246, 50, 64, 115, 16064, 17172, 219, 22325, 22631, 240

Aeronautical Annual, 53, 59, 61

Aeronautical Society of America, 203, 204

ailerons, 203, 218, 256

airplane. See Wright Flyer

airplane production, 210

airplanes. See powered flight, invention of

Albemarle Sound, Outer Banks, NC, 79, 83, 84, 103, 215

Aldrin, Buzz, 179

Allegheny Observatory, 43

aluminum block engine, 15455, 167

America First Committee, 243

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 4849

Ames, Joseph, 235, 238

anarchism, 113

anemometer, 110, 120

angle of incidence, 111, 119, 148

“Angle of Incidence” (Wright, Wilbur), 111, 116

Animal Locomotion or Walking, Swimming, and Flying with a Dissertation on Aeronautics (Pettigrew), 57

Animal Mechanism, 54, 56, 135

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 133, 229

Ark (boat), 43, 44

Arnold, General, 24950

Associated Press (AP), 190

Astor, John Jacob, 18586

automobile, the, 52, 65

Automobile Club, 185

Aviation, 235, 238

Aviation Experiment Association (AEA), 19798

“Aviation's Greatest Controversy” (Brewer), 237

Baden-Powell, Major Baden Fletcher Smyth, 209

Baldwin, George, 194

Baldwin, Thomas S., 11415, 185

Balzer, Stephen M., 65

Barthou, Louis, 209

Baum, Elijah, 86

Beacham, Thomas, 172

Beachey, Lincoln J., 223, 224

Beck, Charles, 30

Beck, Edna, 262

Beck, Lena, 30

Beck, Mabel

Charles Lindbergh and, 232, 252

concern about World War II bombing and, 244, 245

death, 262

education, 30

Fred Kelly on, 2425

Great Flood of 1914 and, 222

having charge over things, 2425, 28

hired by the Wright brothers, 30

knowing the “real story,” 27

letter amending Orville's will and, 31, 245, 247, 251, 253, 262

love letters from Orville Wright, 26263

Orville's niece on, 2829

Orville's will and, 31, 262

photo of Orville and, 30, 253

romantic relationship with Orville, 2930

shipping the Wright Flyer to London and, 232, 234, 25253

Bell, Alexander Graham

Aero Club of America, 186

Aviation Experiment Association, 197

crash of 1908 and, 199

examining Wright Flyer, 196, 200

interest/pursuits with powered flight, 42, 59, 18687

kite built by, 186

Mabel Beck on, 252

Samuel Langley/Langley flyer and, 4243, 44, 45, 46, 64, 224

Selfridge's funeral and, 200

bicycles/bicycle business, 12, 41, 5253, 6263, 6667

biographies on the Wright Brothers, 1011, 1213, 2425

Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (Goldstone), 910, 16, 210

birds, 9, 55, 5657, 5960, 71, 8889, 91, 136, 154, 210

Bishop's Boys, The (Crouch), 13, 1617, 35, 60, 108, 118, 191, 215, 217, 22021, 225, 240, 246

Blackbeard (pirate), 85

Boston, Massachusetts, 21516

Boston Transcript, 57

Brewer, Griffith, 227, 237, 242

Brinkley, W. C., 175

Bryan, William Jennings, 18, 42

California Arrow (dirigible), 115

Canal Dover, Ohio, 96

Cape Hatteras, 82

Carnegie, Andrew, 18, 141

Cassier's Magazine, 110

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 38

Chanute, Octave

Alexander Graham Bell and, 186

Clement Ader's plane and, 168

conflict with Wilbur Wright, 21214

correspondence with Wilbur Wright, 17, 50, 61, 7073, 7475, 10811, 150, 179, 180, 181, 186

gliders of, 4950

hearing of successful flight, December, 1903, 179

Huffaker-Langley connection and, 45

interest in aeronautics, 4849

International Conference on Aerial Navigation, 49, 131

on investor money, 14142

Journal of Western Engineers article, 11314

Kelly's access to letters between Wilbur Wright and, 1213

at Kill Devil Hills (1903), 16869

Progress in Flying Machines, 61

providing information from Langley to Wilbur, 130

at the Smithsonian (1902), 14344

trip to Kitty Hawk (1901), 11819, 120, 127, 12829

view of the Wright brothers, 143, 16869, 191

visit to Samuel Langley (1902), 14345

visit to Wilbur Wright, 112, 11617, 118

Wilbur on, in speech to Western Society of Civil Engineers, 135

Wilbur's visit to, 13133

wind tunnel computations by, 142

Chanute I (biplane glider), 186

Chicago, Illinois

International Conference on Aerial Navigation, 49, 131

typhoid fever in, 51

Western Society of Engineers speech in, 13337

Wilbur's visit to (1901), 13133

Chicago Record-Herald, 189

Chicago Tribune, 165

Churchill, Winston, 244

Cincinnati Enquirer, 189

Cincinnati, Ohio, 35

Cleveland Plain Dealer, 23

Clime, W. S., 198

Coca-Cola, 32

cocaine tooth drops, 32

Cogswell, Doc, 92

coin flipping, 172

Coldwater, Kansas, 36

Collier's, 23

Collier Trophy, 249

Columbian Exposition World's Fair (1893), 49, 51, 131

comic strip, 42

Conklin, Dr., 216

Conquering the Skies (Tise), 106

Contact, 243

Controlled flight, 18, 12930, 133, 135

Cornell College of Engineering, 65

Cornell University, 115

Corsham, England, 18384, 244, 247

Crouch, Tom, 13, 1617, 35, 52, 60, 108, 118, 126, 191, 215, 217, 22021, 225, 237, 240, 246

Culick, Fred E. C., 263

Cunningham, Arthur, 96

Curlicue, 84

Curtiss, Glenn, 18

Aero Club show (1906) and, 186

Alexander Graham Bell and, 186, 187

Baldwin's dirigible and, 11415, 185

Dayton fair (1906) and, 185, 19394

death, 261

flying by Wilbur vs. flying by, 205206

June Bug (plane) of, 197, 203

meeting with the Wright Brothers, 18788, 19495

motorcycle engines of, 6264

on ownership of an idea, 64

patent infringement/patent wars with the Wright brothers, 197, 203, 204205, 206207, 21819, 241

pioneer patent given to the Wrights and, 21819

put out of business, 206207

in races with his planes, 203204

renewed trials for Langley flyer and, 22325, 22627, 229

as responsible for Wilbur's death, 217

Rheims, France race, 204

as stealing and profiting from Wilbur Wright's invention, 19495, 197, 208209

Czolgosz, Leon, 113

Daniels, John T., 26, 91, 147, 172, 175, 178, 182, 221, 261

Dayton Asylum for the Insane, 33

Dayton County Fair, 18586, 19394

Dayton Daily News, 262

Dayton Journal, 189, 192

Dayton, Ohio

the Great Flood (1914), 2122, 22022

Orville's office in, 28

Wright family moving to, 3738

Dayton Tattler (newspaper), 40

deposition, patent suit, 11, 148, 149

dirigible, 11415, 185

Dispatch, 49

Dosher, Joseph, 83

Dough, W. S., 169, 172, 175

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 40

Eastman, George, 60

Edison, Thomas, 42, 59

E. H. Hall Co., Rochester, NY, 98

Elizabeth City, North Carolina, 79, 92, 120, 165

Empire of the Air (Mouillard), 59

engine. See motor (engine)

Engineering Magazine, 133

Eppler, Mark, 197

equation for lift, 61, 126, 13839

Erie Railroad, 48

Ethridge, Adam, 175

Evening Item (newspaper), 40

Experiments and Observations in Soaring Flight (Wright), 186

Experiments in Aerodynamics (Langley), 44, 59, 140

Fairmont, Indiana, 37

Feight, John, 33

Findley, Earl, 24

First Flight (Crouch), 52

flight-data recorder, 170

flight, invention of. See powered flight, invention of

Flyer. See Wright Flyer

Flyer III, over Huffman Prairie, 19192

flyers/flying machines

bicycles and, 53

dirigibles, 11415

See also aerodromes (Langley flyer); glider experiments; gliders; test flights; Wright Flyer

Flying, 133

“Flying Machines and the War” (Kelly), 23

Ford, Henry, 18, 42, 64

Fort Meyer, Virginia, 196

four-cylinder engine, 154

Fouts, W. C., 192

France, 168, 196, 204, 209, 210, 212, 213

Freight, George, 167

Funkhouser, Charles, 31

Gardner, Lester, 235, 238

gasoline engine, 6566, 114, 138, 139, 140

G. H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company, 114

Gleanings in Bee Culture (magazine), 188

Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight (Roseberry), 65, 115, 187, 19495

glider experiments

1900, 74, 75, 83, 9091, 9293, 101105, 102105, 106, 108

1901, 12426, 12729

1902, 146, 14749

1903, 166, 167, 17274, 17578, 17982

choosing a location for, 72, 7374

Lilienthal model, 102

Orville vs. Wilbur flying, in 1900, 101

See also test flights; Wright Flyer

gliders

built by Augustus Moore Herring, 45

designed by Octave Chanute, 4950, 6869, 11819, 122

Edward Huffaker and, 49, 11819, 122

of Otto Lilienthal, 4648, 55

Wilbur testing his kite, 12

Wright, built in 1903, 16768, 17071

Wright, of 1902, 166

See also aerodromes (Langley flyer); Wright Flyer

Goldman, Emma, 113

Goldstone, Lawrence, 910, 16, 210

Goodwin, Margaret, 95

Governors Island, 205, 206

Grant's Tomb, New York, 205, 206

Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 86

Great Flood (Dayton, 1914), the, 2122, 30, 182, 22022

Grumbach, Carrie Kaylor, 17, 117, 262

Gundlach Korona V, 176, 178, 181

Halifax, Nova Scotia, 261

Hammondsport, New York, 62, 22729, 240

hang glider, of Otto Lilienthal, 4648

Harper's, 23

Harper's Magazine, 191

Hartsville, Indiana, 37

Haugh, Oliver Crook, 3233, 34, 39, 116

Hawthorne Street, Dayton, Ohio, 37, 116, 118, 220

Hazel, Judge John R., 207

Herald, 190

Herring, Augustus Moore, 45, 49, 144, 145, 203204, 206, 214

Herring-Curtiss Corporation, 203, 204, 205, 206, 226

Hievesy, M., 216

hinged rudder, 144, 147, 148, 155, 208

Hitler, Adolf, 243

Holmes, H. H., 131

“Horizontal Position During Gliding Flight, The” (Wright, Wilbur), 111, 116

Horwitz, Dr. Allen, 30

Howard, Fred, 68, 69, 105, 148, 167

Howard Observatory, 43

“How the Wright Brothers Began” (Kelly), 23

Hoxsey, Arch, 253

Hudson River Railroad, 48

Huffaker, Edward (E. C.), 45, 49, 59, 11819, 129

at Kitty Hawk (1901), 45, 11819, 120, 12127, 12425, 126, 127, 129

Huffman Prairie, flights at, 188, 19192, 193

Indiana Dunes, 4950

Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Company, 15758

International Conference on Aerial Navigation, 49

inventions, 1819, 60, 6264. See also wing-warping concept

investor money, 141

Jacobs, Jim, 230, 232

J. E. Etheridge Co. Mill, 79

Jex, Henry R., 263

Jockey's Ridge, 85

Johnson, Walter, 228

Jones, Charlotte, 262

Jones, Jesse H., 249

Journal of Western Engineers, 11314

June Bug (airplane), 197, 203

Kansas City, Memphis, and Birmingham Railroad, 35

Katydid (glider), 49

Keiter, Reverend Millard, 141

Kelly, Fred C.

access to Chanute–Wilbur Wright correspondence, 1213

career, 2324

difficulties in with working with Orville, 23, 2426, 27, 247

disbelief about Huffman Prairie flights, 192

getting the Wright Flyer back from London, 27, 24648

on media coverage of 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, 189

Orville Wright and, 246

Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright, The, 1011, 12, 14647, 148, 149, 25459, 261

Keuka, Lake, 63, 22627

Kill Devil Hills (dunes)

memorial to flight and, 120

memorial to flight in, 120

1900 trip, 82, 83, 93, 102105

1901 trip, 12021

1902 trip, 147

1903 trip, 16574, 177

photograph taken at, 17778

weather (1903), 166, 168, 16970, 174, 175

Wilbur's return to (1908), 201202

Wilbur Wright flying the glider at (1900), 102105

See also Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

kite, flying the glider like a, 93, 103, 109, 110, 111, 119, 126, 147

kites, 6870, 186

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

attempts at flying the glider at (1900), 101102

Chanute's suggestion to meet the Wrights in, 11819

Huffaker at, 45, 11819

Kelly biography on events at, 12

media response to 1903 achievement, 18890

memorial to flight and, 120

Orville in (1900), 7983, 9091, 100101

trip to (1901), 11819, 12030

visit to (1902), 143, 144, 14749

Wilbur's correspondence to Chanute on, 108, 109

Wilbur's correspondence to US Weather Service on, 19, 7374

Wilbur's final flight at, 215

Wilbur's return to (1908), 211

Wilbur's visits to, 19

See also Kill Devil Hills (dunes)

Knabenshue, Roy, 30

Kochersberger, Kevin, 263

Kodak camera, 60

Koerner, Susan. See Wright, Susan (Koerner) (mother of Wilbur and Orville)

Ladies Literary Society (LLS), 95

L'Aerophile, 237

Langley Day, 223, 224

Langley flyer. See aerodromes (Langley flyer)

Langley Laboratory, 223, 224

Langley Memorial Tablet, 223

Langley, Samuel Pierpont

accomplishments, 43

aerodrome experiments, 4246, 16064

alteration of Langley aerodrome, 22331

American Association for the Advancement of Science meetings and, 4849

Chanute providing information to Wilbur from, 130

Chanute's visit to (1902), 14345

Charles Manley and, 115

Charles Walcott and, 223

chief engineer for, 193

death, 164

Experiments in Aerodynamics, 44, 59

failed test flight, 16064, 17172

gasoline engine project, 6566, 114

Huffaker, Edward and, 121, 122

letters to Wright brothers, 145, 150

patents granted to, 152

progress of/competition with Wright brothers, 145, 150, 15859

War Department check to Smithsonian and, 50, 6465, 160, 223

Wilbur Wright on, 11516, 136, 171

Wright brothers indebted to, 23637

Le Mans, France, 209, 227

letter(s)

amending Orville Wright's will, 31, 245, 247, 251, 262

from Glenn Curtiss to the Wright brothers, 18788, 194, 195

from Langley to Wilbur Wright, 145, 150

Mabel Beck-Orville Wright love letters, 26263

between Orville and Octave Chanute, 90, 109

between Wilbur and Octave Chanute, 17, 50, 61, 7073, 7475, 10811, 150, 179, 180, 181, 186

to Wilbur, from his father, 10, 36, 90

See also letters from Orville; letters from Wilbur

letters from Orville

to Katherine from Kill Devil Hills (1903), 170, 173

during trip to Kitty Hawk (1900), 91, 92, 93, 100101, 104

during trip to Kitty Hawk (1901), 121, 123

to Wilbur about army flight (1908), 197

letters from Wilbur, 11

to Glenn Curtiss, 197

to his father, 6061, 75, 89

“I” and “we” in, 11, 61, 72, 74, 90

from Kill Devil Hills (1903), 17374

from Kitty Hawk (1901), 12627

to Lorin, about business, 5354

pilgrimage to Kitty Hawk (1900), 79, 80, 81, 86, 8990, 91, 109

to the Smithsonian, 12, 5859, 6061

to the Weather Bureau, 73, 83

lift, equation for, 61, 126, 13839

Lilienthal (glider), 49

Lilienthal, Otto

computations and equations of, 126, 13839

death, 55

flying by, 107

gliders of, 4648, 55

Langley differing from, 140

mentioned in Wilbur's correspondence to Chanute, 71

“Problem of Flying and Practical Experiments in Soaring, The,” 59

Wilbur on, in speech to Western Society of Civil Engineers, 135

Wilbur's glider and, 8990, 102

Wilbur's interest in aeronautics and, 54

Lincoln, Abraham, 38

Lindbergh, Charles, 25, 30, 232, 23940, 24243, 247, 251, 262

Literary Digest, 237

Litterae Laborum Solamen, 95

Loening, Grover, 205206

Love, Judge, 31, 251

Lusitania (ocean liner), 206

“Machine That Flies, The” (Herald), 190

Manateo, North Carolina, 84

Manley, Charles M., 6566, 114, 115, 117, 145, 16063, 161, 164

Marey, Étienne-Jules, 54, 57

marriage, 1112, 14, 262

Masons, the, 141

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 230

Maurer, Richard, 96

Mauretania (ocean liner), 261

Maxim, Hiram, 59

McCullough, David, 10, 210

McFarland, Marvin, 140

McKinley, William, 18, 42, 50, 113, 133

McPherson Town, 30

Means, James Howard, 53, 59

mechanical flight. See powered flight, invention of

media coverage, 18890, 192

Melville, George, 138

Men with Wings, 243

Miami Valley Hospital, 30

Midgette, Captain, 167

Miller, Harold, 31, 251

Miller, Ivonette Wright, 28, 252

Millville, Indiana, 37

Missouri River bridge, 48

monoplane kite, 49

Monthly Weather Reviews, 73, 83

Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, VA, 79

Moore, H. P., 189

Moore, Johnny, 17576

Morgan, J. P., 18

Moses Cohen's Furnishing, 30

motor (engine)

for aerodrome, 160

designed by Charlie Taylor, 15455

Glenn Curtiss's attempts to do business with the Wrights and, 18788, 19394, 195

on Glenn Curtiss's June Bug, 203

Langley aerodrome, 6566, 227

motorcycle, 11415

for new Wright Flyer (1903), 16768

1903 flight and, 173

motorcycle, 6264, 11415

Mouillard, Louis-Pierre, 59, 213

Mount Vernon Ducking Club, 43

movable rudder, 14650, 15657

Nags Head, 82, 85, 121

National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics, 160, 235

National Weather Service, 19, 73

newspaper(s)

influence of mass-produced, 42

reporting on 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, 18990

Wright brothers’ business, 12, 40

New York American, 189

New York Times, 162, 210

New York World, 212

1903 flyer. See Wright Flyer

North American Review, 138

Oberlin College, 9596, 262

Ocracoke, 85, 165

Old Point, Virginia, 79

O'Neal, “Uncle Benny,” 172

On Soaring Flight (Huffaker), 121

opium, 32

Osborn, Agnes, 14

Osborn, Glenn, 14

Otis Elevator Company, 60

Outer Banks, North Carolina, 19, 82, 85, 86. See also Kill Devil Hills (dunes); Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Pan-American Aeronautical Exhibition (New York, 1917), 113, 231

Papers of the Wright Brothers, 108

Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Papers, 1899–1948, The, 12, 73, 116, 140, 177

patent(s)

Augustus Herring and, 206

denied to Wilbur Wright, 15153, 157

granted to Samuel Langley, 152

granted to the Wright brothers (1906), 197, 218

Herring-Curtiss Corporation, 203205, 206207

infringement by Glenn Curtiss, 208, 21112

for invention of controlled flight, 18

pioneer patent for the Wright brothers, 21819, 22324, 230

renewed trials for Langley flyer and, 22425, 229, 230

secrecy by the Wrights and, 191, 192, 193

suits, as time-consuming, 21516

Tom Selfridge/US Army flight and, 19798, 200

wing-warping idea and, 212

patent deposition, 148, 14950

Peninsula, Ohio, 24

Perry, Israel, 8081, 8384, 100, 103, 215

Pettigrew, J. Bell, 57

Philadelphia Inquirer, 165

Philadelphia Record, 189

photographs

alteration of Langley 1903 flyer and, 22729

December 17, 1903, 17679, 18081, 257

Great Flood of 1914 and, 220, 221

of Huffman Prairie flights, 192, 193

Langley's crashed plane, 168

Pilcher, Mr., 135

pilot error, 161, 174

pioneer patent, 21819, 230

pirates, 85

Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 23

Potomac River, 43, 44, 223

powered flight, invention of

Glenn Curtiss stealing, 19495

Katherine Wright and, 98

Orville Wright and, 248

Samuel Langley's role in, 4247

secrecy in order to protect, 19091

Tom Kelly version of, 1112

Wilbur's livelihood and, 190

Wilbur Wright-Octave Chanute correspondence on, 21214

Wilbur Wright's role in, 1516, 17, 1819, 25557

Wright version of, 1213

See also Smithsonian feud

printing press/business, 39, 4041, 56, 69

“Problem of Flying and Practical Experiments in Soaring, The” (Lilienthal), 59

Progress in Flying Machines (Chanute), 49, 61

propellers/propeller shafts, 115, 15758, 16768, 169, 17071, 176, 196, 199, 200

Quantico, Virginia, 4243

races, 203205

Rathbun, Richard, 5859, 223

“Real and Near” column (Fred Kelly), 24

Reeder, Catherine, 35

Republican, 53

Rheims, France race (1910), 204205

Rheims Racer (airplane), 204

Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 164

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 249

Roosevelt, Quentin, 204

Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy), 18, 107, 113, 133, 156, 165, 204, 216, 253

Root, Amos, 18889

Roseberry, Cecil, 65, 115, 187, 19495

rubber-band-powered aerodrome models, 44

Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromics, 223, 23637

San Diego, California, 72

Science Museum, London, England, 31, 231, 23233, 235

Scientific American, 133, 18889

Scientific Magazine, 133

secrecy by the Wright brothers, 66, 71, 110, 119, 19091, 192, 193

Selfridge, Captain Thomas, 196200

sexual relations, 1112, 13, 2930, 9899, 26263

shoe shines, 28, 29

Sines, Ed, 40, 69, 262

Singer, Isaac Merrit, 60

Smeaton's coefficient, 126, 138, 139

Smithsonian Annual Report, 133, 229

Smithsonian feud, 18

alteration of Langley aerodrome and, 22331

Ames/Taylor report and, 237, 238

Charles Lindbergh and, 25, 23940, 24243, 247

Kelly biography and, 2526, 27, 24648

letter amending Orville's will, 245, 247, 251, 262

opposition to Smithsonian, 236, 23738

Orville Wright's demands, 241, 242

public opinion and, 236, 243

supporters of the Smithsonian and, 237

Wright Flyer shipped to London and, 23234, 23536

Wrights’ indebtedness to Langley and, 23637

Zahm report, 229, 240, 241, 247

Smithsonian Institution

Charles Greeley Abbott as Secretary of, 235

Kelly's biography and, 27

Langley aerodrome displayed at, 164, 23031

Orville Wright and, 26

Samuel Langley and, 223

Samuel Langley as secretary of, 43

War Department money given to, 50, 6465

Wilbur Wright contacting, 12, 19, 5859, 6061, 105

Wright Flyer refused at, 230, 235, 236, 237

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 247

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 126

“Soaring Flight” (Huffaker), 59

Society of Engineers, 12

“Some Aeronautical Experiments” (speech), 13237

Spirit of St. Louis (monoplane), 261

Spratt, George Alexander, 11819, 12324, 144, 148, 167, 168, 171

Statesman, 2324

steam-powered aerodrome models, 44, 4546, 47, 59, 113. See also aerodromes (Langley flyer)

Steele High School, 30, 96, 97

Steeper, Howard, 31

Steeper, Miller, 31

Steinbeck, John, 86

St. James City, Florida, 72

storms, 8182, 120, 16667, 168, 201, 234

tail spin, 149

Tate, Addie, 87, 106

Tate, Dan, 166, 167

Tate, Tommy, 9192

Tate, William, 83, 85, 86, 100, 103, 121

Taylor, Charlie (mechanic), 1314, 11718, 119, 15455, 157, 168, 169, 170, 193, 262

Taylor, David, 235, 238

Ten Dayton Boys, 33

test flights

aerodromes of Samuel Langley, 16064, 17172

Chanute's glider, 50

crash of 1908, 196200

by Otto Lilienthal, 55

restored Langley flyer, 22325, 22627, 228, 22930

US Army, 196200

See also glider experiments; Wright, Wilbur, flights of

Tise, Larry, 106

Titanic (ship), 60

Tobin, James, 16

toy helicopter, 11

Tunisson, Frank, 189

typhoid fever, 10, 18, 26, 30, 50, 5152, 88, 122, 217

United Brethren Church, 30, 35, 94

United State Naval Academy, 43

United States Patent Office, 15153

United State Weather Service, 19, 73

US Army, 19, 65, 196, 199, 219, 244

US Army Ordinance Department, 65

US Circuit Court of Appeals, 218, 223

“Value of Curved Surfaces in Flight, The” (Huffaker), 45

Vanderbilt, William K., 186

Verrazano, Giovanni de, 85

Virginia Pilot, 189, 190

Wagner, Mrs., 221

Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 27, 16061, 163, 219, 223, 224, 225, 226, 230, 231, 235, 236

Ward, Captain Jesse, 168

War Department, 50, 6465, 160, 161, 163

Washington Post, 189

Watson, Thomas A., 186

Weather Bureau, 73, 83

well digging, 144, 146, 14849

Werthner, William, 40

Westcott, Robert, 172, 176

Western Society of Engineers, 116, 128, 13137, 15459, 210, 236

West Side News, 39

Weyman, Henry, 228, 229

White, Harry, 114

Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (Howard), 69, 105, 148

Wilson, Woodrow, 95

wind shear, 158

wind tunnel, 12, 15, 138, 13940

wing-warping concept

cardboard-box moment, 68

corresponding with Chanute on, 7172, 112

Glenn Curtiss and, 194, 197, 208

Kelly biography and, 12, 149

Orville Wright and, 147

patent and, 152

setup for control, 144

testing, 104, 127, 128

Western Society of Engineers speech and, 136, 155, 15657

Wilbur as perfecting vs. inventing, 212

Wilbur's work with, 6970

Wohlganger, John, 28, 2930

Woodland Cemetery, 58

Wood, Robert, 47, 48

World's Fair (1893), 49, 51, 131

World's Fair (1900), 96

World's Fair (1904), 96

World War II, 243, 244

Wright Aeronautical Company, 30

Wright and Wright (printing firm), 40

Wright brothers

Baldwin's dirigible and, 185

bicycle business, 41, 53, 67

at Columbian Exposition World's Fair (1893), 49

at Dayton County Fair, 18586, 19394

differences and similarities between, 9, 12, 1617, 13435, 259

different roles in Kitty Hawk (1900), 105106

disbelief about flights of, 19293

father treating as equals, 910

Glenn Curtiss and, 18788, 19495, 197

indebtedness to Langley's work, 23637

in Kelly biography, 248, 25459

at Kill Devil Hills (1900), 100106

at Kitty Hawk (1902), 143, 144, 14749

media coverage on 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk and, 18890

Orville version, in biographical information on, 1011, 12

patent wars, 204205, 206207

photograph of December 17, 1903 flight and, 18081

pioneer patent ad, 21819, 22324

portrayed as perfect men, 15

printing business, 4041

renewed test flights of 1903 Langley flyer and, 230

secrecy by, 19091, 193

sexual relations, 1112, 13

trip to Kill Devil Hills (1903), 16582

trip to Kitty Hawk (1901), 12030

wing-warping idea (see wing-warping concept)

See also Wright, Orville; Wright, Wilbur

Wright Brothers, The (McCullough), 10, 210

Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright, The (Kelly), 1011, 12, 14647, 148, 149, 24648, 25455

Wright Cycle Exchange, 41, 53

Wright, Dan, 35

Wright Flyer

damaged after December 1903 flights, 182

delivered to Kill Devil Hills (1903), 167

displayed at MIT as world's first airplane, 23031

displayed at the Smithsonian, 229, 230, 231

efforts to fly a replica of, 263

Elizabeth City, NC, depot fire and, 165

flown at Kill Devil Hills (1903), 17274, 17577, 180

Great Flood of 1914 and, 21, 30, 22122

Mabel Beck and the letter regarding, 31

mechanic for, 13

media response to achievement at Kitty Hawk, 18890

moved to Corsham, England, 183, 244

Orville as mechanic and Wilbur as designer of, 17, 106, 107

photograph of, December 17, 1903, 17679, 18081

propellers for, 15758

refused at Smithsonian Institution, 230, 235, 236, 237

return to the United States, 249, 26162

shipped to Science Museum, London, 7778, 231, 23234, 23536

Smithsonian plaque for, 261

US army test flight, 196200

World War II bombing and, 24445

See also Smithsonian feud

Wright, Ivonette (sister-in-law). See Miller, Ivonette Wright

Wright, Katherine (sister of Wilbur and Orville), 11

caring for her father and brothers, 11, 1415, 9495, 97

cast out by Orville, 12, 14, 37

Chanute's visit to Dayton and, 117

Charlie Taylor (mechanic) and, 117

courtships/engagement, 94, 96

Earl Findley and, 24

friendship with Margaret Goodwin, 95, 96

Great Flood of 1914 and, 220, 221

Kitty Hawk trip (1900) and, 9798

letters from Kitty Hawk to (1900), 91, 92, 93, 100101

marriage, 12, 14, 262

at Oberlin College, 9596

relationships/sexual interest, 13

role in development of flight, 99

telegram to Chanute (1903), 179

Western Society of Civil Engineers speech and, 132, 133

at World's Fair, 96

Wright, Lorin (brother of Wilbur and Orville), 14, 29, 35, 36, 144, 147, 148, 189, 22729

Wright Memorial, 17

Wright, Milton (father of Wilbur and Orville), 9

bicycles and, 53

as bishop, 35

comparing abilities of Wilbur and Orville, 90

conflict with his church, 141

death, 262

diary entries before Wilbur's death, 21617

Great Flood of 1914 and, 220, 221

influence on Wilbur, 104

Katherine and, 1415, 9495, 96

keeping his family within his orbit, 35, 3637

letters about Kitty Hawk trip (1900) to, 9798

Octave Chanute's visit to Wilbur and, 116

on Oliver Haugh incident (1913), 34

on Orville dropping out of school, 40

Orville's typhoid fever and, 52

parents of, 35

on printing operation, 40

toy helicopter brought home by, 11

travel by, 38

wanting to keep his children home, 3536, 117

Wilbur's correspondence to, 6061, 75, 8990

on the world as evil and untrustworthy, 10, 35, 36, 104, 256

Wright, Orville

accident on glider (1902), 143, 148, 15556

alteration of Langley 1903 flyer and, 22728

appearance of, 16

Chanute on, 143

Charles Lindbergh meeting with, 23940, 25152

courtship with Agnes Osborn, 14

death, 18, 30, 261

education of, 39, 40

on Edward Huffaker, 122

flight on December 17, 1903, 12, 1516, 176, 180, 181

flying crashes, 25556

flying Wright Flyer with an army officer, 196200

glider flights (1902), 14748

Great Flood of 1914 and, 220

having Wright Flyer shipped to London, 231, 23234

heart attacks/strokes, 30

hinged rudder and, 14647

interest in flight, 57

Katherine Orville and, 12, 14, 37, 98, 262

Kelly biography and, 1011, 12, 23, 24, 14647, 148, 149, 24648, 25758

Kelly's interviews and articles on, 23

at Kill Devil Hills (October, 1900), 103, 104

in Kitty Hawk (1900), 9091, 100101

in Kitty Hawk (1901), 122

laboratory of, 28

lack of interest in flying, 6061

letter amending will of, 247, 262

letter between Chanute and, 109

Mabel Beck and, 2830, 26263

movable rudder and, 14647

not flying the glider at Kitty Hawk (1900), 105

omitted from mention in Wilbur-Chanute's correspondence, 72, 7475

pioneer patent and, 21819

returning to Dayton for propeller shafts (1903), 17172

role in Kitty Hawk visit (1900), 106

in school, 40

sexual relations, 2930, 98, 26263

shoe shines and, 28, 29

Smithsonian feud and, 2627, 23034, 235, 237, 24041, 242

Smithsonian letter (1899) and, 59, 60

speech about return of the Wright Flyer (1943), 24950

typhoid fever and, 51, 52, 54

Western Society of Engineers talks and, 137, 159

on Wilbur's death, 217

Wilbur's plans/trip to Kitty Hawk (1900) and, 6061, 7475, 86

wind tunnel and, 12, 13940

See also Wright brothers

Wright, Reuchlin (brother of Wilbur and Orville), 14, 35

Wright Sister, The (Maurer), 96

Wright, Sue (niece), 2829

Wright, Susan (Koerner) (mother of Wilbur and Orville), 2829, 34, 36, 3738, 39

Wright Van Cleve bicycles, 66, 67

Wright Way, The (Eppler), 197

Wright, Wilbur

academic and athletic abilities of, 33

appearance, 17, 33

articles published by, 111

behavior around women, 1314

belief that others were stealing from him, 208209, 21012

on bicycle/airplane connection, 53, 6667

on business/businessmen, 5354

career aspirations, 39, 6768

as celebrity in France, 20910

Chanute's view of, 16869, 191

Chanute's visit to, 112, 11617, 118

correspondence with Octave Chanute, 17, 50, 61, 7073, 7475, 10811, 150, 179, 180, 181, 186

on crash of 1908, 199200

death, 10, 18, 21617

on Edward Huffaker, 122

Experiments and Observations in Soaring Flight (pamphlet), 186

father on intellectual force of, 10

father's fight with the church and, 141

fight with Octave Chanute, 21214

financial gain and, 71, 190

flying by Glenn Curtiss vs. flying by, 205206

funeral of, 217

information from Chanute passed on to, 130

as inventor of manned flight, 1516, 18

kite built by, 6870

letter sent to Smithsonian Institution, 5859, 6061

Mabel Beck and, 30

on marriage, 1112

movable rudder and, 147

needing to understand the science of controlled flight, 12930

offer to Glenn Curtiss, 218

Oliver Haugh event, influence on, 3235, 36, 39

patent application by, 15153

patent deposition, 148, 14950

patent suits/wars, 202, 208, 211, 21516, 218

on position of the flying machine operator, 106, 109, 111

as primary inventor and pilot, 25557

reading and self-education by, 3839

referenced in biographies of Wright Brothers, 11

returning to Kill Devil Hills (1908), 201202, 211

sense of purpose and, 9697

speaking to the Western Society of Engineers, 13137, 15459

taking care of his mother, 34, 37, 38

trip to Kitty Hawk (1900), 7993

on unjustness and evil in the world, 214

visits to Kitty Hawk, 19

on well digging, 14849

See also Wright brothers; Wright, Wilbur, flights of

Wright, Wilbur, flights of

December 17, 1903, 17678, 18081

final, at Kitty Hawk (1912), 215

glider experiments (1900), 83, 102105, 106, 108

glider flights (1901), 12426, 12729

glider flights (1902), 146, 148

glider flights (1903), 17274

Kill Devil Hills (1900), 102105

over Huffman Prairie, 19192

over New York (1910), 206

Xenia, Ohio, 192

Yellow Kid, The (comic strip), 42

Young, Roz, 262

Zahm, A. F., 22425, 226, 229, 240

Zahm report, 229, 240, 241, 247