Box 17A
Container
Contains 42 Results:
Three women examine damage to the Wright 1907 Flyer at Les Hunaudières, 1908 Aug. 13
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908 Aug. 13
Two of the same ladies watching as assistants work on the damaged Wright 1907 Flyer, 1908 Aug. 13
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908 Aug. 13
Lithographic postcard from a photograph showing Hart O. Berg and Wilbur Wright at Camp d’Auvours, Le Mans, 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908
Lithographic postcard from a photograph showing Wilbur Wright and Léon Bollée outside his factory, summer, 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908
Wilbur Wright seated at the controls of his Wright 1907 Flyer at Le Mans, 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908
Wilbur Wright seated in the Wright 1907 Flyer with passenger Ernest Zens, balloonist, at Camp d’Auvours prior to their record setting (endurance with a passenger) flight, 1908 Sept. 16
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
The flight lasted nearly forty minutes.
Dates:
1908 Sept. 16
Officials of the French government inspecting the Wright 1907 Flyer on December 31, 1908, the day that Wilbur Wright won the Michelin prize for endurance., 1908 Dec. 31
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 7
Scope and Contents
His flight lasted 2 hours, 20 minutes and 23 seconds. A note on the verso, "Bartou (sic) in center who became prime minister, France", is probably a reference to Louis Barthou, prime minister of France in 1909. Photographic postcard.
Dates:
1908 Dec. 31
Wilbur Wright talking with George P. Dickin, reporter for the New York Herald and the first journalist to fly in an airplane., 1908 Oct. 3
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
1908 Oct. 3
Wilbur Wright and an unknown mechanic cutting a wire to begin repairs to the left wing of the Wright 1907 Flyer. Wilbur either crashed or made hard landings three times during his flights at Le Mans, probably 1908 Aug. 13
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Wilbur Wright traveled to Le Mans, France, in May 1908. He spent June and July assembling a 1907 model Wright Flyer which had been shipped to France the previous year. This Flyer was based on the design of the modified 1905 Wright Flyer and was equipped with two seats and a stick to control wing warping, instead of the old hip cradle. This design subsequently became known as the Wright Model A. Wilbur was offered space to work in the automobile factory of Léon Bollée. On August...
Dates:
probably 1908 Aug. 13
Wilbur Wright in the basket of Léon Bollée's hydrogen balloon Au Petit Bonheur at Le Mans, 1908 July 26
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 4, Item: 10
Scope and Contents
Wilbur made this ascension with Rene Pellier and Leon Carre. Cabinet card photograph by Emile Viot, Le Mans.
Dates:
1908 July 26
