mixed material monographic eng fre ger 32,250 120 13 15 61 Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, writings, business and legal papers, genealogical material, patents, blueprints, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the lives and work of the Wright brothers who designed, built, and piloted the first machine to achieve powered, sustained flight in 1903 and the first practical airplane in 1905. The papers include scientific data, formulas, and computations related to aerodynamic and design factors and describe the brothers' experimentation with flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 1900-1903, at College Park, Md., in 1909, and at Montgomery, Ala., in 1910, and their trips abroad making flight demonstrations. Subjects include the sale of the Wright airplane to the U.S. Army and others; business concerns involving the Wright Company, Flint and Company, Brewer and Son, Thierry Brothers, and companies established in Great Britain, France, and Germany to produce and sell Wright aircraft; the Wright brothers' patents in the U.S. and abroad as well as airplane patents by others; and the brothers' dispute with Smithsonian Institution over whether S.P. Langley had created an aircraft capable of flight prior to the Wrights' flight in December 1903. Also includes journals and ledgers from Wright and Wright printing company and Wright Cycle Company; records of the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; typescripts, research material, and photographs collected for The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Marvin Wilks McFarland and published in 1953; and Wright family papers including transcripts of Milton Wright's diaries, 1901-1907. Wright family correspondents include Katharine Wright Haskell, Lorin Wright, Milton Wright, and Reuchlin Wright. Other correspondents include Henry Harley Arnold, Hart O. Berg, Griffith Brewer, Octave Chanute, Robert J. Collier, Earl N. Findley, Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, Fred C. Kelly, Roy Knabenshue, Frank Purdy Lahm, Charles A. Lindbergh, Grover Cleveland Loening, Glenn L. Martin, Charles Stewart Rolls, G.A. Spratt, Paul Tissandier, Harry A. Toulmin, and Pliny W. Williamson. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Selected material also available through the Library of Congress Web site. Microfilm edition of selections available; no. 9,349. Microfilm addition of diaries available; no. 17,424. Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available; no. 17,705. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1950-1979. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Aviation pioneers and inventors. Collection material in English, with French and German. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 Arnold, Henry Harley 1886-1950 Correspondence Berg, Hart O 1865-1941 Correspondence Brewer, Griffith 1867-1948 Correspondence Chanute, Octave 1832-1910 Correspondence Collier, Robert J Correspondence Findley, Earl N. (Earl Nelson) 1878-1956 Correspondence Foulois, Benjamin Delahauf 1879-1967 Correspondence Haskell, Katharine Wright 1874-1929 Correspondence Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters) 1882-1959 Correspondence Knabenshue, Roy -1960 Correspondence Lahm, Frank Purdy 1877-1963 Correspondence Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906 Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1902-1974 Correspondence Loening, Grover 1888-1976 Correspondence Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther) 1886-1955 Correspondence Rolls, Charles Stewart 1877-1910 Correspondence Spratt, G. A. (George Alexander) 1880-1934 Correspondence Tissandier, Paul 1881- Correspondence Toulmin, Harry A. (Harry Aubrey) -1942 Correspondence Williamson, Pliny W -1958 Correspondence Wright, Lorin Correspondence Wright, Milton 1828-1917 Correspondence Wright, Reuchlin Correspondence Wright family Wright family Correspondence United States. Army Procurement Brewer and Son. Flint and Company. Smithsonian Institution. Thierry Brothers. Wright Company. Aeronautics Aircraft industry France Aircraft industry Germany Aircraft industry Great Britain Aircraft industry United States Airplanes Bicycle industry Ohio Dayton Flight Patents Printing Ohio Dayton Wright Flyer (Airplane) College Park (Md.) History Kitty Hawk (N.C.) History Montgomery (Ala.) History Aviators Inventors McFarland, Marvin Wilks, 1919- ed. Wright, Milton, 1828-1917 Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Wright and Wright. Wright Cycle Company. mm 78046706 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012.3 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 790119 20260227111627.0 mm 78046706