Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

Joint Resolution Designating the 17th Day of
December Each Year as Wright Brothers Day. United
States Statutes at Large, vol. 77, 1963, p. 402.
House Joint Resolution 335, approved and proclaimed
December 17, 1963 (Public Law 88-209).
Wright Brothers Day, 1966. Proclamation 3757.
December 1, 1966. Weekly Compilation of Presidential
Documents, Dec. 5, 1966, vol. 2, pp. 1750—1751.
President Johnson s proclamation designating
December 17, 1966, as Wright Brothers Day.
Medals and Honors
General
Deposition of William J. Hammer, January 28, 1911. In
The Wright Company Vs. Herring Curtiss Co. and
Glenn H. Curtiss, Complainant s Record, New York:
1912, pp. 20—208, 833, +illus.
Summarized also in The Wright Company Vs.
Claude Grahame—White, Brief for Complainant on
Final Hearing, New York: 1911, pp. 3—8.
Includes enumeration of recognitions and honors
tendered Wrights in 1908 and 1909, pp. 24—34, with
an accompanying photographic reproduction of
many of them.
Acadamie des Sports Medal
L A ronautique l Acad mie des Sports, L A rophile,
Nov. 1, 1908, vol. 16, p. 429.
Includes announcement of the award, October 16,
of the Acad mie des Sports medal to Wilbur and
Orville Wright.
Aero-Club de France Gold Medal
Ehrungen Wilbur Wrights. Illustrierte Aeronautische
Mitteilungen, Nov. 4, 1908, vol. 12, p. 695.
Includes announcement of the award in September
of the A ro-Club of France s gold medal to Wilbur
and Orville Wright.
Medals and Honors
118 Wilbur & Orville Wright
Aeronautical Society of
Great Britain Medal
Letter from Mr. Wilbur Wright. Aeronautical Journal,
Jan. 1909, vol. 13, p. 3, +illus. (facing p. 2).
Wilbur Wright s letter from Le Mans, December 3,
1908, acknowledging that the Wright brothers had
been voted the gold medal of the Aeronautical Society
at its November 9 meeting, in recognition of their
distinguished services to aeronautical science.
Presentation of the Aeronautical Society s Medal. Flight,
May 8, 1909, vol. 1, pp. 260—261.
Account of ceremonies at the Institution of Civil
Engineers, London, May 3, 1909, when the medal was
presented to Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Presentation of the Gold Medal of the Aeronautical
Society of Great Britain to Messrs. Wilbur and Orville
Wright. The Aeronautical Journal, July 1909, vol. 13,
pp. 76—79, +illus.
Includes brief speeches of acceptance by Wilbur
and Orville Wright.
Acadamie des Sciences Gold Medal
Les Medailles de l Academie des Sciences. L A rophile,
Dec. 1, 1909, vol. 17, p. 545.
Announcement of the award of an Acad mie des
Sciences medal to Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Medaille de l A ronautique. Comptes rendus de
l Acade mie des Sciences. Dec. 20, 1909, vol. 149, p.
1297.
Announcement of award of its gold medal to
Wrights.
Aero Club of America Medal
Aero Club Medal. Bulletin of the Aerial Experiment
Association, Jan. 4, 1909, no. XXVI, p. 2.
Report on visit of Alexander Graham Bell and Aero
Club of America s Committee on Medals to the White
House, December 16, 1908, to invite President
Roosevelt to attend a banquet and present a medal to
the Wrights on their return to America.
Taft to Present Wright Medals. Aeronautics, New York,
Apr. 1909, vol. 4, pp. 153—154.