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

Wilbur and Orville
Wright, Wilbur, and Wright, Orville. [Letter Report to
the Aero Club of America, March 2, 1906.] New York:
Aero Club of America, 1906, 2 pp.
Published also in Scientific American Supplement,
Apr. 7, 1906, vol. 61, p. 25203; The Aeronautical
News, May 1906, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 17; Technical World
Magazine, June 1906, vol. 5, pp. 332—333; Revue
d artillerie, Oct. 1906, vol. 69, pp. XII—XV; American
Magazine of Aeronautics, July 1907, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.
23—24; Navigating the Air, New York: Doubleday and
Company, 1907, pp. 6—8; translation by L. Ferrus,
with title, Les exp riences d aviation des fr res
Wright, Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1907, 7 pp.; Greater
Dayton, June 1909, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 218—219; U.S.
Air Services, Dec. 1928, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 27—29;
Aeronautica, Jan. 1929, vol. 3, pp. 10—11; National
Aeronautics, Dec. 1943, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 15, 41.
Publication of the Wrights letter of March 2, 1906,
to Augustus Post, Secretary of the recently created
Aero Club of America, summarizing their 1905 experiments.
. Miracle at Kitty Hawk; the Letters of Wilbur
and Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly. New York:
Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951, 482 pp., +illus.
Also excerpts in Atlantic Monthly, May-July 1950,
vol. 185, May, pp. 23—29, June, pp. 64—70, July, pp.
68—74.
Selections from approximately 500 letters in the
Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers in the Library of
Congress.
. The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright,
Including the Chanute—Wright Letters and Other Papers
of Octave Chanute. Marvin W. McFarland, ed. New
York, Toronto, London: McGraw—Hill Book Company,
Inc., 1953, 2v. (1278p.), +illus.
Excerpts published in New York Times, Oct. 11,
1953, Sec. 10, p. 3, with title The Wright Brothers
Story Told in Their Private Papers and in Life, Dec.
7, 1953, vol. 35, pp. 162—176, in article titled The
Day That Man First Flew; Wrights Papers Recall
Great Event 50 Years Ago, by Ernest Haveann.
Comprises selections from the Wright collection
bequeathed to the Library of Congress by the Orville
Wright Estate in 1949 and from the Octave Chanute
papers deposited in the Library in 1932 by his daughters,
Elizabeth C. and Octavia. Included is the correspondence
between Wilbur and Octave Chanute
(1900-1910), early leader in the aeronautics field;
excerpts from the Wright diaries and notebooks
(1900-1919) and from Wright family correspondence;
Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
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wind-tunnel tables, propeller notebooks, and many
other selected articles, lectures, and writings of the
brothers.
Technical data are presented in four appendices
(Notes on nomenclature, Wright Wind Tunnel, 1901,
the Wright Propellers, and Aeroplanes and Motors)
pp. 543—640 and 1183—1217, prepared by Fred S.
Forward and followed by a bibliography, pp.
1221—1243, prepared by Arthur G. Renstrom.
Reviewed by Allen F. Bonnalie in U.S. Air Service,
Feb. 1954, vol. 39, pp. 11—12; by Roy Madden,
Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Jan. 1955,
vol. 59, pp. 72—74 (reprinted U.S. Air Services, July
1955, vol. 40, pp. 18—20); by Brendan Call, New
Yorker, Feb. 13, 1954, vol. 29, pp. 109—110, 112—113;
by J. Hoff, Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society,
Jan. 1955, vol. 59, pp. 70—71 (reprinted Science, Apr.
15, 1955, vol. 121, pp. 523—525 and in U.S. Air
Services, June 1955, vol. 40, pp. 21—22); by Waldemar
Kaempffert, New York Times Book Review, Dec. 20, p.
6; by James R. Newman, Scientific American, May
1954, vol. 190, pp. 88—93; by Alec Ogilvie, Journal of
the Royal Aeronautical Society, Jan. 1955, vol. 59, pp.
66—68 (reprinted U.S. Air Services, Apr. 1955, vol. 40,
pp.16—19; by J. Laurence Pritchard, Aeroplane, June
18, 1954, vol. 86, pp. 803—806l; by Ernest F. Relf,
Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Jan 1955,
vol. 59, pp. 68—70 (reprinted U.S. Air Services, May
1955, vol. 40, pp. 19—20; by Henry Ladd Smith,
Saturday Review of Literature, Feb. 6, 1954, vol. 37,
pp. 20; in Army Aviation Digest, Sept. 1956, vol. 2, pp.
23—24; in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society,
Dec. 1953, vol. 57, pp. 825—826.
. The Relations of Weight, Speed and Power of
Flyers. In Navigating the Air; a Scientific Statement of
the Progress of Aeronautical Science Up to the Present
Time by the Aero Club of America. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907, pp. 6—12.
Published also in Zahm, Albert F., Aerial
Navigation, New York and London: D. Appleton and
Company, 1911, pp. 478—480.
Gives comparative data for 1903, 1904, and 1905
Wright aeroplanes. Appended are letters to the Aero
Club of America from four witnesses of flights made
by the Wrights at Dayton in 1905.
Orville and Wilbur
McFarland, Marvin, and Renstrom, Arthur. The Papers
of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Library of Congress
Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Aug. 1950,
vol. 7, pp. 23—34, +illus.