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Wright Brothers Resources - the Best of the Web
The Wright Brothers Collection of Wright State University Special Collections and Archives at Dayton, Ohio, is one of the most complete collections of Wright material in the world. It includes the Wrights’ own technical and personal library, thousands of photographs, letters, diaries, financial records, genealogical files, awards, certificates, medals, albums, recordings, and technical drawings documenting the invention of the airplane and the lives of the Wright family.
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wright_brothers/
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress comprises over 49,000 digital images including photographs, diaries, notebooks, family papers, letters, and scrapbooks.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html
Reliving the Wright Way. Multimedia lesson plans and educational activities about the Wright brothers’ invention process, presented by NASA.
Wright Brothers History. Collection of essays, multimedia, and links regarding the history of flight, presented by Centennial of Flight Commission
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/wbh/index.htm
The Wright Experience. Online multimedia resource and classroom experience.
http://www.wrightexperience.com/edu/index.htm
The Invention of the Aerial Age. Timeline and history presented by the National Air and Space Museum
http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/index_full.cfm
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park: The Wright Cycle Company, The Wright Brothers Aviation Center at Dayton History at Carillon Park, the Huffman Prairie Flying Field and Interpretetive Center on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and the Paul Laurence Dunbar House. National Park Service.
http://www.nps.gov/daav/index.htm
How We Made the First Flight, by Orville Wright. Orville Wright’s own account of the first powered, sustained, controlled flight. Compiled by aero-web.org from the Aviation Education Clearinghouse of the Federal Aviation Commission.
http://www.aero-web.org/history/wright/wriframe.htm
Aviators: The Wright Brothers, by Bill Gates. How the Wright brothers’ invention helped form the American 20th Century. Time Magazine, March 29, 1999.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990611,00.html
The Dream of Flight. A Library of Congress Special Presentation Commemorating the Centennial of Flight. An online pictorial and text display of the history of flight including a timeline and selected illustrations from the Library of Congress collections.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-overview.html
Inventing Flight For Schools. Curriculum , interactive activities, and resources. Produced by Think TV.
http://www.inventingflightschools.org/index.html
The Wright Brothers’ Dayton. A look back into an extraordinary period when inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries called Dayton home. ThinkTV and the Montgomery County Historical Society.
http://www.thinktv.org/demand/dema_demand.html?bcpid=1579860810&bclid=1579842752&bctid=1584804999
Inventing Flight. What can we learn from the Wright Brothers? We hear from Tom Crouch, from the Smithsonian Institution and author of “The Bishop’s Boys”. Our Ohio, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
http://ourohio.org/television/watch-videos/especially-for-teachers-ii/inventing-flight/
The Wright Brothers in Pau. Photo gallery of the Wright brothers 1908-1909 flight demonstrations in Pau, France, home of the world’s first flying school. Pau Wright Aviation Association.
http://pauwright.free.fr/en/pages/freres-wright/galerie.htm
Aviation Dayton. News and information about aviation heritage, general aviation, and aerospace in the Dayton, Ohio region.
Aviation Trail, Inc. A self-guided tour of aviation sites around Dayton, Ohio.
http://www.aviationtrailinc.org/
National Aviation Hall of Fame. Lesson plans, biographies, and teacher workshops relating to aerospace education.
http://www.nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com/
Meeting the Challenge: The Wright Brothers. Online resource from the National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?Id=14198
National Aviation Heritage Area. A group of historical sites recognized by Congress in honor of the Dayton region’s leadership in aviation.
http://www.aviationheritagearea.org/
The Wright B Flyer. Experience the thrill of actually flying in a replica of the Wright B Flyer at the Wright B Flyer Museum, Dayton, Ohio.