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

Possible Comes to Light in Laboratory Attic. U.S. Air
Services, Jan. 1947, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 17—18, +illus.
Reprinted from Dayton Daily News.
The balances used in the Wrights 1901 wind tunnel
and lost December 6, 1916, were found in the attic of
Orville s laboratory, December 9, 1946.
Warner, Edward P., and Norton, Fredrick H. Wind
Tunnel Balances. National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics Report No. 72, 1920, 40 pp.
Preprinted from Fifth Annual Report of the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1919,
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920,
pp. 647—648.
Includes Brief Notes on Balances of Other
Types, pp. 39—40. This was the balance used by
Orville Wright in the wind tunnel at his Dayton laboratory,
1917-1922.
Wright Brothers Studies. Science News Letter, June 4,
1949, vol. 55, p. 355, port.
Brief note on Wright wind tunnel instruments on
the occasion of presentation of reproductions to
Oberlin College.
The Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel. U.S. Air Services,
July 1939, vol. 24, no. 7, p. 7.
Editorial comment on Dr. George W. Lewis 1939
Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture before the Royal
Aeronautical Society.
Patents and Patent Suits
United States
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio.
Flying-Machine. No. 821,393. Specification of Letters
Patent. Application Filed March 23, 1903. Patented
May 22, 1906. Washington, D.C.: United States Patent
Office, 1906, 10 pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, May 22, 1906, vol. 122, pp.
1257—1258, and reprinted in Vehicles of the Air, by
Victor Lougheed, Chicago: The Reilly and Britton
Co., 1909, pp. 451—457.
The basic Wright patent, incorporating the constructions
and combinations of the Wright 1902 glider.
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio,
Assignors to the Wright Company, a Corporation of
New York. Flying-Machine. 1,075,533. Specification
Patents and Patent Suits
82 Wilbur & Orville Wright
of Letters Patent. Application Filed February 10, 1908.
Patented Oct. 14, 1913. Washington, D.C.: United
States Patent Office, 1913, 14 pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, Oct. 14, 1913, vol. 195, p. 353.
Device for maintaining automatic stability.
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio.
Mechanism for Flexing the Rudder of a Flying
Machine or the Like. No. 908,929. Specification of
Letters Patent. Application Filed July 15, 1908.
Patented Jan. 5, 1909. Washington, D.C.: United States
Patent Office, 1909, 5 pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, Jan. 5, 1909, vol. 138, p. 164.
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio,
Assignors to the Wright Company, a Corporation of
New York. Flying-Machine. No. 987,662. Specification
of Letters Patent. Application Filed February 17, 1908.
Patented Mar. 21, 1911. Washington, D.C.: United
States Patent Office, 1911, 5 pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, Mar. 2, 1911, vol. 164, p. 711.
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio,
Assignors to the Wright Company, a Corporation of New
York. Flying-Machine. No. 1,122,348. Specification of
Letters Patent. Application Filed February 17, 1908.
Patented Dec. 29, 1914. Washington, D.C.: United States
Patent Office, 1914, 10 pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, Dec. 29, 1914, vol. 209, p.
1357.
Orville Wright and James M. H. Jacobs, of Dayton,
Ohio, Assignors to Dayton—Wright Company, of
Dayton, Ohio, a Corporation of Delaware. Airplane.
1,504,663. Application Filed May 31, 1921. Patented
Aug. 12, 1924. Washington, D.C.: United States Patent
Office, 1924, 8 pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, Aug. 12, 1924, vol. 325, p. 374.
Invention designed to increase the lift of an airfoil
through the use of a split flap.
Orville Wright of Oakwood, Ohio, Assignor to the
Miami Wood Specialty Company, of Dayton, Ohio, a
Corporation of Ohio. Toy. 1,523,989. Application Filed
November 10, 1923. Patented Jan. 20, 1925.
Washington, D.C.: United States Patent Office, 1925, 4
pp., +illus.
Abridged in The Official Gazette of the United
States Patent Office, Jan. 20, 1925, vol. 330, pp.
662—663.