Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Papers written by Wilbur Wright and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, made the first manned, controlled, sustained, successful powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft. This title represents the record left by the Wright brothers on their triumph, and its consequences to themselves and to the world.