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Box 19A

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Wilbur Wright, and an assistant, preparing the Wright Model A Flyer on the launch rail at Governors Island., 1909

 Item — Box: 19A, Folder: 1, Item: 10
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: 1909

Front view of Orville Wright demonstrating wing warping on a Wright Model A Flyer at Huffman Prairie, 1910

 Item — Box: 19A, Folder: 3, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: While at Simms Station in 1910, the Wright Brothers flew the Wright Model A Flyer (Wright 1907 machine) from May 10 to May 20. From May 21 to October 14, they flew the Wright Model B Flyer. The transition from the Wright Model A Flyer (1907-type machine) was gradual. Orville and Wilbur Wright both experimented with placement of the horizontal control surfaces in 1909. In 1910 they applied a fixed horizontal stabilizer to the tail of the Model A. It was then made moveable, working in...
Dates: 1910

Front view of a Wright Model A Flyer in high flight over Huffman Prairie., circa 1910

 Item — Box: 19A, Folder: 4, Item: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: While at Simms Station in 1910, the Wright Brothers flew the Wright Model A Flyer (Wright 1907 machine) from May 10 to May 20. From May 21 to October 14, they flew the Wright Model B Flyer. The transition from the Wright Model A Flyer (1907-type machine) was gradual. Orville and Wilbur Wright both experimented with placement of the horizontal control surfaces in 1909. In 1910 they applied a fixed horizontal stabilizer to the tail of the Model A. It was then made moveable, working in...
Dates: circa 1910