U.S. Industrial Revolution follows the Industrial Revolution in England Success encourages Imitation: The Revolution Spreads To the Continent To the United States
U.S. Industrialization begins in New England Horse Power to Water Power Second Industrial Revolution ( ) Transportation Revolution in U.S. Steamboat / Canals / Railroads
Titans of Industry in the United States Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroads Andrew Carnegie Steel John D. Rockefeller Oil
The Wright Brothers
Wilber Wright Orville Wright Wright brothers’ childhood
Wright Family Home 7 Hawthorn Street West Dayton
West Side NewsWright Cycle Company Wright brothers’ early entrepreneurial spirit
Wright brothers’ interest in flight Samuel Langley unmanned steam- powered flight Wright 1899 Kite Otto Lilienthal Glider
Wright Glider, 1901
The Problem of Flight Wind Tunnel Wing Warping
The Flight at Kitty Hawk, December, 1903 Flights at Huffman Prairie 1904, 1905
The Dayton Daily News, October, 1905, page 9 Wrights have trouble establishing legitimacy The Paris edition of the International Herald Tribune headlined a 1906 article on the Wrights: "FLYERS OR LIARS?" Wrights demonstrate Flights publically, Virginia and France, 1908
Wrights’ Patent War Wilber WrightOrville WrightGlenn Curtiss
Smithsonian Feud The Smithsonian Institute hoped to save Langley's aeronautical reputation by proving the Aerodrome could fly Modified Langley Aerodrome Katherine Wright
The original Wright brothers aeroplane The world's first power-driven heavier-than-air machine in which man made free, controlled, and sustained flight Invented and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright Flown by them at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17, 1903 By original scientific research the Wright brothers discovered the principles of human flight As inventors, builders, and flyers they further developed the aeroplane, taught man to fly, and opened the era of aviation Flyer place at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C in 1948 (Returned from London)