“Isn’t it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!”

​—Orville Wright

Dayton's Children—Now in E-Book

For over 100 years remarkable, intertwined individuals have reshaped the way we live our lives, from the keys in our pockets to the water we drink and the air we breathe. Wherever we live we’re all Dayton’s Children. Read the companion book to Dayton Innovation Legacy, by Mark Martel, Mark Bernstein, Charlie Adams, John Janning, and others.

 Available at Amazon.com

Wilbur Wright—Why Wilbur Mattered

Charles F. Kettering—The self-starter who gave us the self-starter

Orville Wright—Shy prankster, inveterate tinker, always dapper

Arthur Morgan—Mover of Earth, Pourer of Concrete, Shaper of Minds

Neal Loving—"Loving's Love"

John Patterson—ringing up success with the incorruptible cashier

Colonel Edward A. Deeds—An able man who made things work

Maude Elsa Gardner—Aeronautical engineer through two world wars

Thomas Midgley, Jr—The price of progress

Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter—Selling the Sky

Edward A. Murphy, Jr—The engineer who accidentally coined Murphy’s Law

Charles Otterbein Adams—Living Dayton's history

John L. Janning—In the Blink of an Eye

Mary Ann Johnson—On the Aviation Trail

Rich Johnson—Filling far-off hearts and minds

The Siebenthaler Family—Cultivating Success Across Six Generations

Chuck Buchanan—The engineer's engineer

Hardy Trolander—Minding the Planet

Aviation pioneer Orville Wright was a founding member of the Engineers Club of Dayton and served as its 4th president. Witness footage from some of the world’s first public flights during 1908-1909 in Virginia, France and Italy. Includes the earliest motion pictures ever taken from an airplane. 
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