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| Title |
Capable of flight: the feud between the Wright brothers ,and the Smithsonian |
| Personal
Name |
Crouch, Tom D. |
| Publication
Title |
American heritage of invention & technology |
| Pages |
p.34-46, illus. |
| Publication
Year |
Spring 1987 |
| Language |
English |
| Form
of Item |
journal article |
| Country |
United States |
| Open
Term |
Wright-Smithsonian Institution Controversy ,Monuments and Museums -- Smithsonian Institution ,National Air and Space Museum |
| Volume(Issue) |
2(3) |
| Abstract |
Detailed journal article account of the Wright-Smithsonian controversy, 1914-1948, in which the Smithsonian officially recognized Samuel Pierpont Langley's 1903 Aerodrome as the first airplane capable of flight even though the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer was the first to actually fly. Traces the controversy from the test flight of a reconstructed model of the 1903 Aerodrome over Keuka Lake near Hammondsport, New York, in 1914, to the transfer of the 1903 Wright Flyer to the Science Museum of London in 1928; from the 1942 Smithsonian publication of the differences between the 1903 Aerodrome and the improved reconstruction, test flown in 1914--in effect, an admission that the original 1903 Aerodrome could not have flown, to the return of the 1903 Wright Flyer from London to Washington in Dec. 1948: a final recognition by the Smithsonian of the 1903 Flyer as not only the first airplane to fly, but the first capable of flight. |
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