Box 17A
Container
Contains 5 Results:
The modified 1905 Flyer mounted on the starting rail at Kill Devil Hills with four unidentified people grouped behind it., 1908
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 1, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
This series includes many original photographic prints made by the Wrights from their own negatives shortly after the images were taken. The Wrights exposed at least 303 gelatin dry plate negatives in the course of documenting their process of invention. All of their glass plate negatives were given to the Library of Congress in 1949, but many of their original prints remained with the Estate of Orville Wright. Many of the Wright Brothers’ original negatives were damaged in Dayton’s great...
Dates:
1908
Wilbur Wright circling the field at Les Hunaudières near Le Mans, 1908 Aug.
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 2, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
The Wright 1907 Flyer appears over the hangar and spectators.
Dates:
1908 Aug.
Wilbur supervising the dismantling of the left wings of the damaged Wright 1907 Flyer, August 1908., 1908 Aug.
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 3, Item: 6
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.
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
Another view of the soldiers on parade with their officers and a large crowd of spectators present for the Lafayette-Washington ceremony, 1918 Dec. 22
Item — Box: 17A, Folder: 6, Item: 6
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:
1918 Dec. 22
