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Orville Wright

(1871-1948)

Who Was Orville Wright?

Orville Wright and his elder brother, Wilbur Wright, were the inventors of the world's first successful airplane. The brothers successfully conducted the first free, controlled flight of a power-driven airplane on December 17, 1903. They subsequently became successful businessmen, filling contracts for airplanes in both Europe and the United States. Today, the Wright brothers are considered the "fathers of modern aviation." Orville is also known for developing technology for the U.S. Army.

Early Life

Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871, in Dayton, Ohio, one of five children of Susan Catherine Koerner and Milton Wright, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.

As a child, Orville was a mischievous and curious boy, and his family encouraged his intellectual development. "We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity," Orville later wrote in his mem

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Today in 1871, aviator and inventor Orville Wright was born to Milton and Susan Catherine Koerner Wright. Orville was the sixth of seven children born to the Wrights.

At an early age he was intrigued by mechanical things. One of his first interests was printing. As a teenager, Orville began a printing business with his boyhood friend, Ed Sines. Later, his older brother Wilbur joined the effort. The brothers printing firm, Wright & Wright Printers, printed pamphlets, brochures, and other job printing. Orville and Wilbur also edited and produced a couple of their own short-lived local newspapers, the most significant of which was The Evening Item.

In the spring of 1892, they responded to the bicycling craze sweeping the United States by opening their own bicycle rental and repair shop. Orville enjoyed racing and considered himself a “scorcher" on the track.

Drawing upon similarities between cycling and flying, the brothers began to research aerodynamics, propulsion, and control. Beginning formal study of aeronautics in 1899, the Wright brothers conducted researc

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Orville Wright, working with his brother Wilbur, made the first heavier-than-air, powered, controlled flight by man, leading the world into the aviation age.

Family Life

Orville was born to Milton and Susan Wright in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1871. Orville was the sixth child of seven, but two of his older siblings did not survive infancy. Those siblings that did survive were his 3 older brothers, Reuchlin, Lorin, and Wilbur, and he would have one younger sister, Katherine, born exactly three years after him in the very same room, in the family house in Dayton on 7 Hawthorne Street. He would become very close with Wilbur, as their scientific collaborations can attest, and he would also have a close relationship with Katharine. Their father Milton was a Bishop in the United Brethren Church, causing the family to relocate frequently, in addition to Milton often traveling for work. Despite this, it was a very loving, close-knit family. Their parents raised the children to be self-confident and to pursue whatever aroused their curiosity.

Education

Orville received his formal scho