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

Wilbur Wright. In The New International
Encyclopoedia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company,
1916, vol. 23, p. 283.
Continued in later editions, 1917 and 1930.
Brewer, Griffith. The Life and Work of Wilbur Wright.
The Aeronautical Journal, July-Sept. 1916, vol. 20, pp.
68—84, +illus.
Abstract with title, In Memory of Wilbur Wright,
in Aeroplane, June 14, 1916, vol. 10, pp. 940—942,
944, +illus.
The Fourth Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture
delivered before the Royal Society of Arts, June 16,
1916. In a group of eleven accompanying appendices,
pp. 84—135, the author reprints articles by the
Wrights and materials from The Aeronautical
Journal relating to them.
Drury, Marion R. The Conversion of Wilbur Wright. The
Watchword, Mar. 31, 1918, pp. 4—5, +illus.
Marbury, Elizabeth. The Triumph of Wilbur Wright at Le
Mans. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1923, vol. 8, no. 12, p. 18.
Reprinted from one of a series of articles in the
Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 13, 1923, vol. 196, no.
14, pp. 129—130 which were later published in book
form with title My Crystal Ball, New York: Boni and
Liveright, 1923, pp. 179—180.
Martin, Hans Herinnerungen aan de gebroeders Wright.
Het Vliegveld, Nov. 1928, vol. 12, pp. 317—319, +illus.
Author s recollections of Wilbur teaching
Calderara to fly at Centocelle, Italy, in April 1909.
Essais de Wilbur Wright Le Mans 1908. [Wilbur
Wright s Trial.] La Conquete de L Air. The Conquest of
the Air. [Le Mans] Usines Leon Boll e [1929?] [28 pp.]
Album of 24 postal card photographs issued as tribute
to Wilbur Wright. Includes foreword in English
and French and facsimile of telegram sent to L on
Boll e by Orville Wright on May 30, 1912, announcing
Wilbur s death.
Wright, Orville and Wilbur [Signed O. W.]. In The
Encyclopoedia Britannica, 14th ed., London, New York:
Encyclopoedia Britannica, 1929, vol. 23, pp. 808—809.
Continued in later editions.
Wilbur Wright. In Blue Book of Aviation, Los Angeles:
Hoagland Company, 1932, p. 232, port.
Wilbur Wright In National Encyclopoedia, New York: P.
F. Collier & Son, 1932, vol. 10, p. 526.
Published also in later editions, 1934-1947; revised
1948-1949.
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[Findley, Earl N.] Wilbur Wright s Hudson River Flight.
U.S. Air Services, Oct. 1934, vol. 19, no. 10, p. 11.
Editorial on twenty-fifth anniversary of flight of
October 4, 1909, from Governors Island to Grant s
Tomb and return.
Beck, James M. Wilbur Wright s Last Flight. U.S. Air
Services, Nov. 1934, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 22—23.
Supplementary note, Dec. 1934, vol. 19, no. 12, p. 33.
Another account by the Chairman of the Committee
on Aeronautics of the Hudson—Fulton Commission
who arranged a contract with Wilbur Wright for the
flight.
Lambert, Marquise, Charles M. de My Memories of
Wilbur Wright. U.S. Air Services, Mar. 1935, vol. 20, no.
3, pp. 13—15, +illus.
Account of her flight as a passenger with Wilbur
Wright at Pau in February 1909.
Klemin, Alexander. [Signed A. K.] Wilbur Wright.
Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Charles
Scribner s Sons, 1936, vol. 20, pp. 568—570.
Mee, Arthur. The Broken Dream of Wilbur Wright.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938, 32 pp. (Arthur
Mee s Rainbow Books).
Title based on Wilbur Wright s hope that the aeroplane
would become an instrument of peace.
[Findley, Earl N.] Wilbur Wright Pays Grant s Tomb a
Flying Visit. The Story of a Great Achievement of Thirty
Years Ago. U.S. Air Services, Oct. 1939, vol. 24, no. 10,
pp. 10—12, 36, +illus.
Rewrite of an account originally published in the
New York Herald Tribune, October 5, 1909.
Wilber Wright s flight up the Hudson River from
Governors Island to Grant s Tomb and return, October
4, 1909.
Cass Gilbert and Wilbur Wright; Record of an Interview,
October 5, 1909. Minnesota History, Sept. 1941, vol. 22,
pp. 302—305.
Impressions of the architect, Cass Gilbert, published
here for the first time from documents in the
Minnesota Historical Society.
Kelly, Fred C. When Wilbur Wright Won France.
Harper s Magazine, Dec. 1941, vol. 184, pp. 84—90.
Account of Wilbur Wright s stay and flights at Le
Mans and Pau, 1908 and 1909.
Williams, Al. Wilbur Wright Is an Everlasting
Inspiration to Me. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28,
no. 12, pp. 27—28, +illus.