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Journal articles on the topic "Wright, Orville"

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Crouch, Tom D. "Blaming Wilbur and Orville." Business History Review 89, no. 2 (2015): 339–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680515000392.

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Few Americans can match the honors and adulation accorded Wilbur and Orville Wright. The brothers emerged as great international heroes with their first public flights in Europe and America in the high summer of 1908. They were no longer the shadowy figures whose claims to have flown an airplane as early as 1903 were widely discounted; now kings, queens, presidents, and prime ministers flocked to see them fly and showered them with awards. Newspapers on two continents chronicled their triumphal progress across Europe and return to the United States in 1909. Wilbur's death from typhoid in 1912 was reported in bold headlines around the world. In the decades that followed, the Wrights' joint achievement would be commemorated with a great national monument, enshrinement in Greenfield Village (Henry Ford's grand tribute to the heroes of American ingenuity), and membership in good standing in the pantheon of brilliant inventors whose work reshaped history.
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Davis, John. "Great Inventors: Wilbur and Orville Wright." 5 to 7 Educator 2010, no. 70 (October 2010): x—xiii. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ftse.2010.9.10.79465.

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Stojiljković, Bratislav, and Ivana Ćirić. "The correspondence between Nikola Tesla and Orville Wright kept in the scientist's legacy in the Nikola Tesla museum: On the occasion of the 165th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla." Kultura, no. 170-171 (2021): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura2171219s.

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Nikola Tesla and the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, have worked and created in the United States of America in the period comprising the last two decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. All three of them were visionaries and creators of the modern technical age. In the Tesla's legacy, apart from his personal and technical items, press clippings, monographic and serial publications, there are also about 156,000 sheets of archival material which cover his entire life and work, both chronologically and thematically. Among these testimonies there are four original documents (a concept of a condolence letter, a copy of the sent condolence letter, a brief gratitude note and a formal invitation) that were exchanged between Nikola Tesla and probably Orville Wright, between 1912 and 1920. The oldest preserved document of their correspondence is the concept of Tesla's condolence letter to Orville Wright on the occasion of the death of his older brother. Two approved patents for the Wright brothers' aircraft model have been preserved as well, which testifies of the scientist's interest in their work and aviation research in general. Researching the correspondence between Nikola Tesla and Orville Wright, as well as the other documents from the scientist's legacy preserved in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, we have tried to highlight the details of his acquaintance with the Wright brothers, that is, a small fragment of his life and work which has remained almost unknown until today. Results of the research, presented in the form of a scientific research paper, contribute to a better understanding of the aviation history and reveal new details from the life stories of our renowned scientist and the two famous aviation pioneers. The publication of exclusive documents from Tesla's legacy is a contribution to the wider scientific community and a new reference point for all the researchers who are to cover similar topics in the future.
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McCullough, Robert N. "Calculating Coefficients." Mechanical Engineering 126, no. 04 (April 1, 2004): 36–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2004-apr-4.

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Wilbur and Orville Wright, both engineer brothers, studied results of Germany’s Otto Lilienthal to improve their airplane flight experiments and calculations. The Wright gliders of 1900 and 1901 used wings like Lilienthal’s, and the brothers relied on his calculations for determining coefficient of lift. When the Wrights compared their results with those of Lilienthal, they found only small disagreements. With the coefficients of lift and drag holding up to their scrutiny, the Wrights turned their attention to the only other possible source of error in the equations, the Smeaton coefficient of air pressure. The Wrights built lift balance after discovering a discrepancy between actual and predicted values for lift and drag. The brothers plotted out the relationship among lift, thrust, weight, and drag. The Wrights figured out that the margins are a tribute to their genius. Perhaps all they proved in 1903 was that flight was possible on a cold and windy day in North Carolina.
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Ruffles, P. C. "Aero engines of the future." Aeronautical Journal 107, no. 1072 (June 2003): 307–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000013610.

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One hundred and two years ago, after the Wright brothers had just attempted another unsuccessful flight, they predicted that it would be another 50 years before manned flight was achieved. Only two years later and 100 years ago this year, Orville Wright achieved the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, illustrating just how difficult it is to predict the future and at the same time launching the pioneering age of aviation.
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Trimble, William F., and Fred Howard. "Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers." Journal of American History 75, no. 2 (September 1988): 646. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1887956.

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Crouch, Tom D., and Fred Howard. "Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers." American Historical Review 94, no. 5 (December 1989): 1496. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1906558.

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Bednarek, Janet R. Daly (Janet Rose Daly). "The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright (review)." Technology and Culture 43, no. 3 (2002): 639–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2002.0101.

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Baker, Bill, and Tom Crouch. "The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright." Antioch Review 48, no. 1 (1990): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4612166.

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Gollin, Alfred, and Tom Crouch. "The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright." Technology and Culture 32, no. 1 (January 1991): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3106038.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Wright, Orville"

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Ohman, Klas Walace. "How they flew modern flight test of pioneering Wright aircraft /." 2004. http://etd.utk.edu/2004/OhmanKlas.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004.
Title from title page screen (viewed Sept. 27, 2004). Thesis advisor: R.B. Richards. Document formatted into pages (xi, 83 p. : ill. (some col.)). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-65).
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Books on the topic "Wright, Orville"

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Rowland-Entwistle, Theodore. Wilbur & Orville Wright. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1988.

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ill, Doremus Robert, ed. Wilbur and Orville Wright, young fliers. New York: Aladdin Books, 1986.

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Brunsman, Charlotte K. Wright & Wright, printers: The other career of Wilbur and Orville. Kettering, Ohio: Trailside Press, 1989.

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Brunsman, Charlotte K. Wright & Wright, printers: The other career of Wilbur and Orville. Kettering, Ohio: Trailside Press, 1989.

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1953-, Macken JoAnn Early, and Lawn John ill, eds. Wilbur & Orville Wright: The flight to adventure. New York: Scholastic, 2006.

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Owen, Findsen, and Dayton Art Institute, eds. The Wright Brothers legacy: Orville and Wilbur Wright and their aeroplanes. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.

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Mary, Collins. Airborne: A photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2003.

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illustrator, Beier Ellen, ed. Young Orville and Wilbur Wright: First to fly. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2005.

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Woods, Andrew. Young Orville and Wilbur Wright: First to fly. [Mahwah, N.J.]: Troll Associates, 1991.

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Fred, Howard. Wilbur and Orville: A biography of the Wright brothers. Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "Wright, Orville"

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Crouch, Tom D. "Blaming Wilbur and Orville: The Wright Patent Suits and the Growth of American Aeronautics." In Archimedes, 287–300. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4379-0_11.

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Jakab, P. L. "Wilbur Wright 1867–1912 and Orville Wright 1871–1948." In Encyclopedia of Creativity, e108-e111. Elsevier, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-375038-9.00236-3.

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Lienhard, John H. "War and Other Ways to Kill People." In The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195135831.003.0012.

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We humans are a hardy lot. It eventually takes the cellular deterioration of old age to set most of us up for death, which then occurs by cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, or other illness. Death by natural causes is almost always the result of a protracted assault on our bodies. We are hard to kill. But now and then we undertake the technological problem of killing one another intentionally. That is seldom easy to do, and it has to play out against the universal human commandment “Thou shalt not kill.” So the problem is not only a difficult one technologically, it is also one that calls up all manner of creative tactics of self-justification. The motivation for killing takes many forms—the greater good of society as expressed in war and capital punishment, mercy killing, personal gain (often expressed in crime against another person), revenge, anger, or suicide. I expect we all have sanctioned killing by one or more of these means at one time or another, by either words or deeds. We have created little original technology for the purpose of killing one another. However, a great deal of our existing technology has been adapted to that purpose. Weapons for hunting have repeatedly been elaborated into weapons of crime or war. Lisa Meitner, whose 1939 paper described the energy release of nuclear fission, clearly thought she had identified the ultimate peacetime power source. Asked what use the Wrights’ new airplane would be, Orville Wright unhesitatingly shot back, “Sport!” While war was far from the Wright brothers’ minds in the process of invention, their first big commercial sale was to the United States Army. The peculiar relation between creativity and killing comes home to me in my reaction to an event in the late days of World War II, when the war finally came closest to my quiet home in Minnesota. Since Tokyo was more than six thousand miles away, the mutual slaughter of Japanese and the Allies had largely been carried out in the Pacific Ocean. Then in January 1945 we learned about Japan’s secret weapon. She was trying to ignite our mainland with incendiary bombs.
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Conference papers on the topic "Wright, Orville"

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Ash, Robert L., Stanley J. Miley, Drew Landman, and Kenneth W. Hyde. "Wilbur and Orville Wright and the Evolution of Efficient Aircraft Propellers." In ASME 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/de-23295.

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Abstract Four Wright brothers’ propellers have been carefully reproduced by The Wright Experience for the purpose of measuring their performance using modern instrumentation. Reproductions of a 1903 Flyer propeller, a 1904 ‘Le Mans’ propeller, and two circa 1910 ‘bent end’ propellers have been manufactured, duplicating materials, construction and dimensional geometry. As evidenced by the correlation between static thrust measurements reported originally by the Wright brothers and our recent measurements in Old Dominion University’s Langley Full Scale Tunnel, the propeller reproductions match the static thrust performance of the original propellers to within experimental accuracy. Using modern instrumentation, it has been possible to measure the overall performance of these propeller reproductions covering their full speed ranges. Our tests have shown that the 1903 Wright propeller had a peak efficiency greater than 80 percent (Wilbur appears to have estimated its efficiency to be 66 percent) and the 1904 and 1910 propellers had peak efficiency levels approaching 90 percent. Not only did the Wright brothers’ propellers exhibit systematic increases in static thrust, but their propeller designs were extraordinary because they produced efficiencies approaching the levels found on modern-day human-powered flying machines. Our measurements have shown that the Wright brothers’ use of large-diameter, slowly rotating propellers enabled them to achieve propulsive efficiencies that were unsurpassed for nearly 20 years.
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Vail, Stephen. "Airport CDM or Orville Wright's top ten." In 2014 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icnsurv.2014.6820030.

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