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

Women Who Made Our Country Great, New York:
Crown Publishers, 1956, pp. 236—239.
Chandler, Charles D. and Lahm, Frank P. How Our Army
Grew Wings, Airmen and Aircraft Before 1914. New
York: The Ronald Press Company, 1943, 333 pp., +illus.
Includes two chapters devoted to the Wrights, The
Birth of Aviation which recounts their early flying
experiments and The First Army Airplane which is
an account of their negotiations for the sale of their
aeroplane to the U.S. Army and of their Fort Myer trials,
1908-1909.
Chanute, Octave. Fortschritte und neuere Erfahrungen
im Kunstflug. In Moedebeck, Hermann W. L.,
Taschenbuch zumpraktischen Gebrauch fur
Flugtechniker und Luftschiffer, Berlin: W. H. Kuhl,
1904, pp. 322—340, +illus.
English translation by W. Mansergh Varley,
London: Whittaker & Co., 1907, pp. 301—307.
Includes section devoted to the Wrights: 5.
Wright, pp. 330—334.
Charnley, Mitchell V. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
[Signed M. V. C.] In The World Book Encyclopedia,
Chicago: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1952, vol. 18, p. 8932.
Clark, Ronald W. The Wright Brothers. In his The Air,
London: Max Parrish [1966], pp. 55—83, +illus.
A popular account of the early experiments of the
Wrights.
Cobianchi, Mario. I voli di Wilbur Wright a Roma. In his
Pionieri dell aviazione in Italia, Rome: Editoriale
Aeronautica, 1942, pp. 16—18.
Account of Wilbur Wright s flights at Centocelle,
near Rome in April 1909.
Combs, Harry, and Caidin, Martin. Kill Devil Hill:
Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, 389 pp., +illus.
Biography of the Wright brothers based on both
original and secondary sources. Emphasis is on the
technical problems of flight and how the Wright
brothers solved them, but is presented in popular
terms. The first author, a pilot himself, describes the
sense of awe in flying, in often emotional terms.
Includes photographs, drawings, and an index.
Conover, Charlotte R. The Birth of an Aeronautical
Industry. In her Dayton and Montgomery County,
Resources and People, New York: Lewis Historical
Publishing Co., 1932, vol. 2, pp. 487—489.
Includes brief mention of early Wright activities in
Dayton.
Biographical References
. The Home of Aviation, 1896-1915. In her The
Story of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio: The Otterbein Press,
1917, pp. 183—195, +illus.
Discusses roles of Wrights in history of Dayton.
Coppens de Houthulst, Willy. Les Fr res Wright. In his
L Homme a Conquis le Ciel, Paris: Hachette [1937], pp.
81—104.
An account of the Wright brothers activities, 1899-
1905.
Cottler, Joseph, and Jaffe, Haym. The Wright Brothers.
In their Heroes of Civilization, Boston: Little, Brown,
1931, pp. 239—248.
Cox, James. The Wright Brothers. In his Journey
Through My Years, New York: Simon and Schuster,
1946, pp. 81—84.
Reminiscences by long-standing friend of Orville
Wright, a former governor of Ohio and owner of the
Dayton Daily News.
Crouch, Tom D., and Sharkey, Gerald S. A Wrong or
Two Wrights? Timeline, Aug./Sep. 1987, pp. 42—47,
+illus.
The article presents opposing arguments as to the
authenticity of a purported 1893 photograph depicting
Wilbur and Orville Wright in the Wright brothers
bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio.
. Bishops Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville
Wright. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989, 606
pp., +illus.
Detailed biography of the Wright brothers.
Emphasizes their relationships with their other siblings
and relatives and especially the influence of their
father, Milton Wright (1828-1917), who was elected a
bishop of the United Bretheren Church in 1877.
Includes photographs, quotes from numerous original
sources as well as citations of numerous secondary
sources, and an extensive index.
Chapter notes pp. 531—575, and bibliography of
over 150 entries.
Crowder, B. M. [signed B. M. C.]. Wilbur and Orville
Wright. In Chambers s Encyclopaedia, New York:
Oxford University Press, 1950, vol. 14, p. 758.
Derieux, Mary, ed. Orville and Wilbur Wright. In her
One Hundred Great Lives, edited by John Allen [pseud.],
New York: Greystone Press, 1948, pp. 674—680.
Dollfus, Charles. Wilbur et Orville Wright, 1867-1912,
1871-1948. In Les inventeurs c l bres, Paris: Lucien
Mazenod, 1951, pp. 246—248, +illus.
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