The Small Workshop That Opened the Sky

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A bicycle shop in Dayton became a laboratory for flight. With a homemade wind tunnel and their own measurements, Wilbur and Orville Wright learned to lift, power and control a machine in the air. Follow the journey from a small workshop to Kitty Hawk—and beyond.

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0:00 Twelve seconds
0:43 Two brothers
1:26 The man who glided
1:59 Three problems
2:39 A twisted box
3:11 A windy beach
3:37 Fifty years
3:55 The wind tunnel
4:33 Control
5:05 An engine from the shop
5:24 A wing that turns
5:51 December 17
6:40 Inform press
7:00 A cow pasture
7:27 Fliers or liars
7:48 We are beaten
8:25 A short life
8:44 The quarrel
9:18 Still flying
9:42 Twelve seconds

Image credits
Archival images via Wikimedia Commons, public domain or CC0: the Wright
brothers' own photographs, 1900–1905 (Library of Congress), including the
first flight, 17 December 1903, photographed by John T. Daniels; Orville's
telegram of 17 December 1903; the 1903 engine (photographed 1928) and a
1903 propeller (Smithsonian); the Wright Cycle Company building (National
Park Service); Otto Lilienthal in flight (1894); Charlie Taylor; the Flyer
at Le Mans (1908) and Wilbur Wright by Jules Beau (1908); Fort Myer (1908,
NASA); Langley's Aerodrome (1903); Apollo 11 by Michael Collins (NASA, 1969);
Ingenuity on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS, 2021).
Archival images cropped and treated in greyscale.