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

Extensive account of the Wright brothers papers
received by the Library of Congress, May 27, 1949,
from the Estate of Orville Wright, giving history of
acquisition and outline of contents and materials in
the collection.
Wright, Orville, and Wright, Wilbur. A Letter from
Orville and Wilbur Wright. Aero, [New York] Mar. 23,
1912, vol. 3, p. 499.
Also Scientific American, Mar. 30, 1912, vol. 106
(n.s.), p. 287; Flight, Apr. 6, 1912, vol. 4, p. 305.
Letter to the editor setting forth grounds for the
recent German Patent Office decision nullifying main
claims of the Wright German patent.
. Our Aeroplane Tests at Kitty Hawk. Scientific
American, June 13, 1908, vol. 98 (n.s.), p. 423.
Partial translations, with titles, Les derniers Essais
des Wright en Am rique, racont s par eux-m mes,
L A rophile, June 15, 1908, vol. 16, pp. 222—223, and
Unsere neuen Flugversuche [signed Mck, i.e.,
Moedebeck], Illustrierte Aeronautische Mitteilungen,
July 1, 1908, vol. 12, pp. 349—351.
Brief note on flights carried out in May 1908.
The Wright Brothers Aeroplane. The Century
Magazine, Sept. 1908, vol. 76, pp. 641—650, +illus.
Abstract in L Illustration, Sept. 5, 1908, vol. 66, p.
168; Sport im Bild, Oct. 1908, vol. 15, pp. 274—275;
La Conqu te de l air, Nov. 15, 1908, vol. 5, p. 2;
translation of selected excerpts with title, Les
Travaux des Wright expos s par euxm mes,
L A rophile, Nov. 1, 1908, vol. 16, pp. 426—428;
translation in Revue d artillerie, Jan. 1909, vol. 73,
pp. 201—226; translation by L. Ferrus with title,
Notre Vie, Je Sais Tout, Jan. 15, 1909, vol. 4, pp.
713—724; translation in Peyrey, Francois, Les Oiseaux
artificiels, Paris: H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1909, pp.
636—655; translation with title, Die Erfindung des
Fliegens in Adams, Heinrich, Flug, Leipzig, C. F.
Amelang, 1909, pp. 30—44; slightly abridged Russian
translation in Veigelin K. E., Zavoevanie vozdushnogo
okeana, S.-Peterburg: Knigoizd-vo P. P. Soikina,
1917, pp. 129—136; Aeronautical Journal, July/Sept.
1916, vol. 20, pp. 100—106; in Orville Wright Dinner
of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., July
[June] 19, 1918 Dayton, Ohio, Dayton: Society of
Automtovie Engineers, 1918, pp. 1—13; in The Early
History of the Airplane, Dayton: the Dayton—Wright
Airplane Co. [1922], pp. 1—8; Aviation, Dec. 17, 1923,
vol. 15, pp. 732—737; U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1923,
vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 26—32; translation with brief introductory
statement and tribute by the author in
ngstr m, Tord, Br derna Wright och
Flygproblemets L sning, Stockholm: Nordisk
Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Rotogravyr, 1928, pp. 7—20; Aeronautics, Jan. 1909,
vol. 3, pp. 4—9.
First popular presentation by the Wrights of their
aeronautical achievements. Though it appears under
joint authorship, the article was entirely the work of
Orville Wright.
. Wright Flyer. A Report of Late Tests Is Given
by Messrs. Wright, Inventors of the Machine. Dayton
Press, Jan. 6, 1904.
Published also with title, La Machine volante des
fr res Wright, L A rophile, Jan. 1904, vol. 12, pp.
16—18; The Aeronautical Journal, Apr. 1904, vol. 8,
pp. 41—42; and in Freudenthal, Elsbeth, Flight into
History, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1949, pp. 86—88.
Statement prepared for the Associated Press by the
Wrights to correct printed information about their
December 17, 1903, flights. This appeared in many of
the Associated Press newspapers on January 6.
Interviews, Speeches, Statements
The Aeroplane. What Will it be Like in Five Years Time?
Opinions of Prominent Aeroists. What Wilbur Wright
Thinks. Motor, London, Nov. 17, 1908, vol. 14, pp.
457—458.
Predicts future of the aeroplane lies in use for military
purposes.
Rouhier, Maurice. Wright professeur. La Vie au grand
air, Feb. 27, 1909, pp. 134—136, +illus.
Abridged in La Conqu te de L Air, Apr. 15, 1909,
vol. 6, no. 8, p. 1.
Interview with Wilbur Wright on his training and
instruction methods.
A Talk with Wilbur Wright. Scientific American, Oct. 23,
1909, vol. 101, p. 290.
Wilbur Wright states that future development of
aviation will be in high altitude flying because of the
more favorable atmospheric conditions provided by
upper air strata.
Ohio in Aviation. Twenty-Fourth Annual Banquet of the
Ohio Society of New York January 10, 1910. In Ohio
Society of New York, Reports of Proceedings, 1910, New
York: 1910, pp. 93—138.
Includes brief remarks by Wilbur Wright on occasion
of dinner given in Wrights honor.
Wright s Statement Concerning Johnstone s Fatal Fall.
Mobile Era, Dec. 1910, vol. 1, p. 16.
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