The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

As the continuation of five years of careful study and expenditure. Wilbur and Orville Wright. two young men of Dayton Ohio, have constructed a ma chine which on December last easily flew more than three miles in the face of q wind blowing twenty-one miles an hour. The affair was dirigible at all times
 This is the first successful flying ma chine which has ever been constructed and the eyes of the entire scientific world have been turned on the experimenting grounds at Kitty Hawk, N. C., an isolated locality among the sand dunes of the Alt lantic Coast.
 What they have built is not an airship supported by a gas bag and driven by a motor but a scientific adaptation of the principles in a soaring eagles flight, only that two motor driven screw fans, one with a horizontal resistance and the other with perpendicular resistance, make the machines flight something surpassing that of soaring bird, for the machine can navigate the air in any direction. and the soaring bird is confined to currents of air that oppose his wings in available fashion. , --
 Having known of them and their earlier work with the intimacy of school fellow ship and neighborly friendship, and hav- ing followed their later endeavors with the interest DeSOI OL Olu tiinSSb iS IHOTS than a pleasure to tell, now that they have triumphed where so many, many others have failed, of the predatory things and of their small beginnings.
 The brothers are the sons of Bishop Wright, of the conservative division of the United Brethren Church, and are ma lives of the city of their present r'si- dence. Orville, the younger, ;s nearly thirty and Wilbur is few years older. Their total scientific training was got un- der Professor William Werthner in the old Central High School, in Dayton. and, oddly enough, boys who were schoolmat"s with them and have since distinguished themselves in the public eye incluce Er nest Blumenschen. one of the country s foremost illustrators; Earl Riser, twice America's champion professional bicyclist; Harry Lydenberg. with row of Harvard records and the librarianship of the As tor Library in New York. and Paul Iau- renee Dunbar, the negro poet and novel, ist. #
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 Both boys excelled in mathematical. electrical and chemical studies and were honor men. On graduation they estab- lished tiny job printing office on the west side and published suburban paper with success. Ere long Orville began making fine showing in bicycle racing. and both entered into the manufacture Of bicycles. which is theif business today: they being the designers and makers Of the Van Cleve wheel.
 It was in 1896 that Professor Langley s attempts at aerial navigation attracted their attention +o +La subject and In 1SSS they took up the matter actively. Their spare time for many months was spent fin the observation of the flights of birds, kites, etc., and paralleling this line of study was their experimental study with gasolene and electrical motors.
 They were 50 successful in the latter that the attention of Western engineers was attracted to them. Their designs In gas engines were of a most advanced tyne, and so careful '7ere their calcula- tions and so clear their imaginative con atruction-the great inventive faculty that success attended all they did.
 Al last when satisfied that they had a motor which could produce as much power rer pound of weight and foot of space as could the natural navigators of the air fhev turned their attention to the con etruction of a winged machine which should afford enough resistance to the air to support it's own weight and that of one man.
 If Orville Wright led in the motor con struction Wilbur Wright was foremost ir the working out of the soaring or gliding theory. and so this story of their progress shall be for the most part told in the words of the older brother:
 Difficulties Overcome.
 '.The difficulties which We faced were to be classed in three groups-Q) those which relate to the construction of the sustain