The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-10

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look up almost any time
and flying above his A4
Dayton home and be reminded ~
that he the FIRST Of all NOR
tai into the air. Is PW
No discoyerer or inventor
has radical a revolution -
Of the world in such short
time Not Columbus. tor he ,,~y -
died before he knew that he ~ ~
had found continent. Not -
Watts. for the steam engine did " n
not fully reveal its power in his W
lifetime Bell. when he heard y
telephones every hand. and ~
Edison. when he could the .
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streets lit by his electric lamps
could come nearest realizing
the Transformation of daily life
effected by their inventions. But #
these developed gradually =
under normal conditions as fast
as market could be open for ~
them. while aviation forced
into premature maturity by the
World War. which compelled
all nations to engage in the ad-
vancement Of its actual applica-
ton regardless OF expense and
danger
The conquest Of the air. The
completely accomplished with latc Wilbur
in the present century. fulfilled Wright. On
Of the dearest desires Of the his turn the crude
human heart from the earliest conhophon he stayed IN
ages: the air So seconds. covered
Birds can fly so why can't $50 feet
~ This mental query which
led Darius Green to launch his
flying machine from the barn loft had puzzled the brains Of in
ventve minds all periods and places he walls OF ancient
Egypt and Ayra carved with the hgures OF winged men,
Mankind had always longed for wings. dreamed Of them.
prayed for them hoped be good enough to to heaven
where AL Gods chlluns got wings
his suppressed dcre. dating back the childhood OF the
race first realized on earth Kill Devil Hill. Kitty Hawk.
North Carolina. December IL 1908. when Orvle Wright
flew 10 feet in II seconds
TTOW Orv|le and Wilbur Wright. the young bicycle
makers of Dayton. got interested in aviation and how
they began their experiments may be best read IN the
words Of the elder brother the st account given OF their
first flights with gders the epochmakng paper read by Wilbur
Wright before the Western Society Of Engineers September 49,
1901 and published in the Smithsonian Report in 1902
My active interest aeonauteal problems dates back
to the death Of Lienhal 1896 The brief notice Of his
death which appeared in the Geographic that time
and led take down from the shelves Of home library
book Animal Mechanism by Professor Marcy. which
had already read several From this led read
modern works. and my brother became equally
interested with myself passed from the reading to the
thinking and finally to the working stage.
1t seemed that the main why the problem had
remained long unsoved that had been able to
obtain any adequate practice We figured that Lentha in
hye Of time had spent only about FIVE hours actual
gliding through the The wonder that he had done
little but that he had accomplished much It would
be considered all safe for bicycle rider attempt ride
through crowded city street after only Eve hours practice.
spread bits OF seconds each period Of FIVE
years yet LienthaI with this brief practice remarkably
successful meeting the fluctuations and edde of wind gusts.
We thought that if method could be found by which