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

and introduced into the record by Congressman
Reynolds of North Carolina.
Thomson, Jay E. The Wrights Invent the First Airplane.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1937, pp. 171—180.
Durand, William F. The Wright Brothers. Journal of the
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, Jan. 1938, vol. 5,
pp. 111—112.
Brief address delivered at the Honors Night
Meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences
commemorating the thirty-fourth anniversary of the
first flights of the Wright brothers. Orville Wright
attended as an Honorary Fellow.
The First Army Air Crash. Look, Feb. 1, 1938, vol. 2, no.
3, pp. 56—57, +illus.
Seven photographs of accident at Fort Myer,
September 17, 1908, in which Orville Wright was
injured and Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge killed.
Lahm, Frank P. The Wright Brothers as I Knew Them.
U.S.A. Recruiting News, May 1938, pp. 4—7, +illus.
Published also in Journal of the Aeronautical
Sciences, Feb. 1939, vol. 6, pp. 165—167; Air Corps
News Letter, Mar. 15, 1939, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1—4;
Sperryscope, Apr. 1939, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 1—5; translation
El Ejercito constitucional, Havana, June-July 1939,
vol. 42, pp. 58—59; Southern Flight, July 1939, vol. 11,
no. 7, pp. 5—7; Quartermaster Review, July-Aug. 1939,
vol. 19, pp. 14—17, 73—74, with title, Pioneers of the
Air; American Foreign Service Journal, Apr. 1940,
vol. 17, pp. 194—195, 214—218, +illus.
Bauer, Charles J. Ed Sines, Pal of the Wrights. Popular
Aviation, June 1938, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 40—78, +illus.
Reminiscences of the Wrights by an early partner in
their printing establishment.
Mayer, Robert. Kitty Hawk Cachet, Stamps, June 4,
1938, vol. 23, pp. 33—34, +illus.
Description of cachet used on mail dispatched from
Kitty Hawk, May 18, on the occasion of National Air
Mail Week, May 15—21, 1938.
Iacobescu, Gh. Orville si Wilbur Wright. Romna
aer an , July-Aug. 1938, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 20—24, +illus.
Lewis, George W. The Contributions of the Wright
Brothers to Aeronautical Science and Engineering. In
The Edison Institute, Dedication of the Wright Brothers
Home and Shop in Greenfield Village. Dearborn, 1938,
pp. 26—35.
Published also in U.S. Air Services, May 1938, vol.
23, no. 5, pp. 13—15.
Aeroplanes and Flights
Address delivered at dedication exercises, April
16,1938.
Purchase Date of First Army Airplane. Air Corps News
Letter, Jan. 15, 1939, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 15.
The First Airplane Bought by Any Government. U.S. Air
Services, Aug. 1939, vol. 24, no. 8, p. 7.
Editorial comment on thirtieth anniversary of sale
of Wright aeroplane to U.S. Army, August 2, 1909.
Story of Aviation in Capitol s Rotunda. U.S. Air
Services, Aug. 1939, vol. 24, no. 8, p. 9.
Reports favorable action on H. J. Res. 123, introduced
by Thomas A. Jenkins of Ohio, to complete the
unfinished frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol with a
history of aviation including the invention of the
aeroplane by the Wright brothers.
Thirty Years Ago and It Seems Like Only Yesterday.
Orville Wright Flew Lieutenant Foulois from Fort Myer
to Alexandria, Va. U.S. Air Services, Aug. 1939, vol. 24,
no. 8, pp. 11—14, +illus.
Account of ceremonies planned for anniversary of
contract signed August 2, 1909, with Wright brothers,
providing for purchase of an aeroplane by the U.S.
Army.
Chronology of Army Wright. Chirp, Aug. 6, 1939, no.
25, p. 4.
Ingells, Douglas J. They Gave the World Wings. Model
Airplane News, Oct. 1939, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 6—7, 40—46,
+illus.
Popular summary of early Wright experiments and
flights written on occasion of the thirtieth anniversary
of the purchase by the U.S. Army of a Wright aeroplane.
Quotes from Orville Wright s interview with
reporters prior to thirty-fifth anniversary celebration
of the 1903 Kitty Hawk flights.
Kelly, Fred C. How the Wright Brothers Began.
Harper s Magazine, Oct. 1939, vol. 179, pp. 473—484.
Popular account of the Wright brothers boyhood
and youth, their operation of a print shop and later a
bicycle repair shop, their gliding experiments, and
finally their successful powered flights in 1903.
Montgomery, Frank A., Jr. Kitty Hawk Where Man
First Flew. Air Trails, Dec. 1939, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 25,
46—47, +illus.
Thirty-Six Years After. U.S. Air Services, Jan. 1940, vol.
25, no. 1, p. 7.
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