Wilber and Orville Wright
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Where they were born.
They were born in the United States of America.
What was there childhood like?
Did You Know?
- They invented the first working airplane!
- It was called Kitty Hawk
- The flight lasted only 12 seconds! Its next flight was 59 seconds. Catherine Koerner (1831–1889). Wilbur Wright was born near Millville, Indiana in 1867; Orville in Dayton, Ohio in 1871. The brothers never married. The other Wright siblings were named Reuchlin (1861–1920), Lorin (1862–1939), Katharine (1874–1929), and twins Otis and Ida.
Did this person go to school?
Yes they did go to school.
What problem did he or she uncover that needed solving?
Flight in heavier than air aircraft.
What solutions had already been tried that did not solve the problem? Why wasn’t it working?
Lighter than air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships.
What they invented.
They invented the first airplane that flew under its own power.
How did the invention solve the problem?
Made aircraft less subject to adverse wind.
How has this inventor changed people and the world?
Reduced travel time around the world.
When they died.
Wilbur died in 1912, Orville died in 1948
If you could ask this inventor one question, what would you ask?
How did you make a plane? How did you start off?
If you could bring this inventor to today and tell him or her one thing, what would you tell him or her about the effect of his or her invention?
Supersonic passenger air travel.
Written for younger readers
Wilber and Orville Wright, in simpler words
This version comes from Wikijunior, a set of books written for children aged 8 to 11. It is shorter and uses plainer language than the article above.
From Wikijunior: Famous Inventors
Copy the main points from this Link to Wright brothers’s Wikipedia entry
They were born in the United States of America.
Did You Know?
- They invented the first working airplane!
- It was called Kitty Hawk
- The flight lasted only 12 seconds! Its next flight was 59 seconds. Catherine Koerner (1831–1889). Wilbur Wright was born near Millville, Indiana in 1867; Orville in Dayton, Ohio in 1871. The brothers never married. The other Wright siblings were named Reuchlin (1861–1920), Lorin (1862–1939), Katharine (1874–1929), and twins Otis and Ida.
Yes they did go to school.
Flight in heavier than air aircraft.
Lighter than air aircraft such as hot air balloons and airships.
They invented the first airplane that flew under its own power.
Made aircraft less subject to adverse wind.
Reduced travel time around the world.
Wilbur died in 1912, Orville died in 1948
How did you make a plane? How did you start off?
Supersonic passenger air travel.
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