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Title	Wright Brothers' Tools
Subject	Transportation Science and Technology Tools Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 Flight Aeronautics
Place	Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	This wood clamp and mallet were donated to the United States Air Force Museum by the estate of Orville Wright in 1949. They make up part of a larger collection of tools and equipment donated to the museum that were used in the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop. The Wright Brothers were using these tools as early as 1900 for projects at their bicycle shop. The clamp, shown in the first image, is approximately 8" x 12" (20.32 x 30.48 cm). The second image shows the mallet, which is approximately 12" x 4" (30.48 x 10.16 cm). As young men Orville and Wilbur Wright became interested in aviation. After studying data from the inventors of the past like Otto Lilienthal and Octave Chanute the Wright Brothers applied their incredible ingenuity to testing and fashioning the first powered heavier-than-air aircraft. They also operated a bicycle sales and repair shop in West Dayton, Ohio. On December 17, 1903 the Wright Brothers' first powered flyer soared into the air at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville at the controls. This success was met with some skepticism in scientific circles. The Wrights themselves would not offer any information on the flyer until they had received a patent. They continued to modify the design of the flyers, testing them at Huffman Prairie in Dayton until 1905. Legally patented in 1906, the Wright Brothers began marketing their new invention. They first offered it to the U. S. government, but it was not until the Wrights had become celebrities in Europe while exhibiting their aircraft for foreign dignitaries that the U. S. government took note. Military tests of the flyer began in 1908 and continued in 1909, when the aircraft was accepted for military service. Wilbur Wright died in 1912, leaving Orville to fight numerous patent-infringement lawsuits over the next decade. Orville lived in Dayton and experimented in his laboratory until his death in 1948.
Date of Original	1900s circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) 57-305 (V-13081-36) 57-305 (V-13081-24)
Submitting Institution	National Museum of the United States Air Force
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om2715_1994236_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2715_1994236_001.tif
Image Height	1550
Image Width	2076
File Size	561.192 KB

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