Margherita, Dowager Queen of Italy, 382, 388
Marshall, Fred, 505–6, 510
Martin, Glenn L., 461, 466
Glenn L. Martin Company, 466
Masterson, Bat, 72
Matin, Le (Paris), 334, 368–69
Matthews & Light, 102
Mauser Gun Works, 330
Maxim, Hiram, 205, 215, 242
Means, James Howard, 115, 162, 169, 233, 347
Melville, George, 137
Men With Wings, 495
Mexican War, 19, 99
Miami River, 46, 47, 52, 452, 458
Miami Wood Specialty Company, 515
Michelin, André, 384
micrometers, 273
Midget, 94
Midgett, Franklin, 354
Midgett, Spencer “Little,” 354
Miller, Harold S. “Scribze,” 480–81, 482, 503, 515, 525, 526
Miller, Ivonette Wright (niece), 126, 271, 481–82, 526
Katharine recalled by, 122, 127
Orville recalled by, 13–14, 112, 125–27, 128, 476, 477, 481, 503, 513, 515
Wilbur recalled by, 117, 125–27, 128
Miller, Luther, 528
Millikan, Robert, 474, 502
Milling, Thomas DeWitt, 436, 464
Mitchell, John, 443–44
Mitchell, William, 502
Moccasin (A-4), 267
Moedebeck, Hermann W. L., 219–20, 232
Moisant, John, 431, 432, 434
Moltke, Helmut von, 339
Mona Lisa, 335
monoplanes, 143, 145, 154, 179, 232, 318, 324, 445, 528
Montgomery, James, 497
Montgomery, John Joseph, 152, 296–97, 445, 496–98, 500, 502
Montgomery, Regina, 496–97
Monthly Weather Review, 182
Moon, space travel to, 460
Moore, Harry, 271
Moore, Johnny, 266, 269–70
Moore, Willis, 182
Morgan, John, 28, 86
Morgan, J. P., 387, 388, 409
Motor Airship Study Company, 339
motorcycles, 313–14, 353
Mouillard, Louis-Pierre, 162, 201, 245–46, 254, 419, 441–42, 446
Mount Rushmore, 471
Mount Vernon Ducking Club, 139
Munn, Charles, 363
Murray, James Wolfe, 306
Musgrave, Bishop, 86
Myers, Carl, 290, 312–13
“Mythical Whitehead Flights, The” (Wright), 500
Nash, F. S., 263
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 473, 474, 492, 516, 517, 524, 529
National Anti-Secrecy Association, 51
National Cash Register Company, 158, 468, 478, 496, 521
National Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies, 51
National Temperance Convention, 51
navigational aids, 397–98
Navy, U.S., 457, 458
Aeronautics Bureau of, 471
NBL-1 Barling Bomber, 511
Nevin, Robert M., 292
Newcomb, Simon, 137
Newell, Emerson, 500
New Orleans Picayune, 136
newspapers, 135–36, 143, 145, 270–72, 274, 279
air competitions sponsored by, 425, 437–38, 439
Newton, Byron, 356–57
New York Aero Shows, 498
New York American, 272, 444
New York Enquirer, 328
New Yorker, 472
New York Globe, 347
New York Herald, 315, 325, 326, 328, 355–56, 381, 443
New York Herald Magazine, 280, 498
New York Times, 337, 355, 425, 465–66
New York World, 136, 419, 425, 444
Nicoll, DeLancy, 409
Nolte, George, 329
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 270, 271, 274, 355, 356
Northcliffe, Arthur Harmsworth, Lord, 384, 449
North River Steamboat, 406
Notre Dame cathedral, 335
Oberlin Preparatory School, 87, 88–89
Oberlin University, 89, 92, 119, 120, 122, 157, 160, 385, 482, 525
Oches, Victor, 137–38
Ogilvie, Alexander, 431, 443, 444
Ohmer, Will, 276
Old Constitution church, see Church of the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution) Olympic Games (modern), 136
“On a Matter of Fraud,” 491
O’Neal, Oliver, 354
O’Neal, “Uncle Benny,” 264, 354
“On Soaring Flight” (Huffaker), 162
ornithology, 160
ornithopters, 138
“Orville’s Railway,” 479
Osborn, Agnes, 119, 173, 379
Osborn, Glenn, 119
Otterbein, Philip William, 28, 51, 82
Outcalt, Richard F., 136
Outer Banks, 14, 183–95, 270, 278, 350, 505–7
Ovington, Earl, 431
pacifism, 40
Painlevé, Paul, 381
Palmer, Ida, 57, 58
Panama, 36
Pan-American Aeronautical Exhibition, 492
Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, The, 526
parachute jumps, 144, 248, 290, 425
Parallel Lives (Plutarch), 78
Parc d’Aérostation (Saint-Cloud), 250, 275, 336
Parmalee, Phil o., 428, 433, 434–35
Parseval dirigible, 405
Parsons, Herbert, 331, 390, 392
Parsons [Kans.] Sun, 148
Patent Office, U.S., 15, 246, 253, 414, 423
patents, 231, 254, 275–76, 278
automobile, 461–62
infringement of, 360, 363, 364, 399, 400, 402–3, 404–5, 407, 410, 412–23, 451–52
rejected applications for, 246, 253, 275–76
usefulness of, 300, 462
Wrights’ applications for, 245–46, 253, 275–76, 277, 300, 443
Wrights’ holding of, 312, 314, 349, 352, 353, 410
Patrie, La, 336
Patterson, Frank Stuart, 511
Patterson, John H., 158, 468
Patterson Field, 511
Pau, France, 385–86, 387–88, 505
Paulhan, Louis, 413–14, 428
Payne, S. J., 266–67
Peartree, Henry, 440, 441, 452
Pellier, Monsieur, 366
Pénaud, Alphonse, 56, 57, 161, 164, 168–69, 249, 342
pendulums, 443, 459, 460
Pennington, E. J., 101
Pennsylvania, 184
perpetual motion, 355
Perry, Israel, 185–86, 195, 199
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 438
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 438
Peterkin, Clinton R., 409–10
Pettigrew, James Bell, 160
Peyrey, François, 367, 377, 417
Philadelphia Public Ledger, 425
Phillips, Harvey, 498–99
Philomatheon Literary Society, 64, 101
phrenology, 40
Picquart, Georges, 333–34
Pilcher, Percy Sinclair, 164, 171, 172, 214, 231
pilots:
control problems of, 168, 169–70, 179, 209–12, 214–15, 238, 286, 296–97, 364, 396, 435, 458–59
daredevil, 296, 425–26, 428, 430–31, 460
errors of, 458–59, 464
financing of, 437–38
glider, 143–45, 179–80, 296–97
military, 435–36, 458, 463–64, 510–11
prone position of, 190, 199, 200, 202–3, 295
test, 511
training of, see flight training upright position of, 338, 349, 370
Pirelli, Giovanni de, 381, 387–88, 410
pitch control, 167–69, 180, 198, 210–12, 286, 297
Pittsburgh Dispatch, 151–52
Plant, Morton, 409
Plessy v. Fergusson, 136
Plew, James, 445
Plutarch, 53, 78
Pocket-Book of Aeronautics, The (Moedebeck), 232
Pont-Long, 385
Poor,
Alfred Eastman, 506
Pope, Albert, 106
popular Aviation, 499
popular Science Monthly, 517, 518
Post, Augustus, 313, 326, 363
Post, Harry, 463
Powderly, Terrence, 98, 99
Practical Aerodynamics (Hayward), 417
Pratt truss system, 155, 276
Premiers Hommes-oiseaux, Les, 367
“Pride of the West,” 255
printing presses:
rotary, 136
Wright-built, 95, 96, 102, 107, 515, 516
Prix de la Hauteur, 381
Prix pour Record de Distance, 322
“Problem of Flying and Practical Experiments in Mechanical Flight, The” (Lilienthal), 162
Progress in Flying Machines (Chanute), 152, 162, 165, 181, 296, 419
propeller revolution counter, 267
propellers, 139, 140, 141, 142, 166, 241, 267, 282
accident caused by, 377–78, 395
shafts of, 259, 261, 377–78, 395
ship, 242
thrust delivered by, 242, 243, 260–61
two contrarotating, 243–44, 312
Wright’s development of, 242–44, 253, 259, 260–61, 295, 395
Pulitzer, Joseph, 98
Pulitzer Race, 511
Pupin, Michael, 502
Quantico, Va., 138–42, 162, 258
Queen Monoplane Company, 431, 456
Raddon, Charles B., 306
Radley, James, 431
Randolph, Stella, 498–99, 500
Rapiére, La, 322–23
Rathbun, Richard, 161–62, 485
Rathenau, Walther, 339
Reader’s Digest, 500
“Real Fathers of Flight, The” (McMahon), 517
Reber, Samuel, 464
Red Wing, 352–53
Reed, Luther, 141
Reform Leaflets, 63
Régnier, Henri, 310
Reichelderfer, Francis W., 524
Reims, France, 403–4, 405–6, 413
Reinieger, John, 174
Reinieger, Walt, 174
Religious Telescope, 43, 45, 51, 52, 68, 78, 79
Renard, Charles, 231, 252, 320
Reuchlin, Johannes, 39
Revue des Sciences, 253
Rhinow Hills, 142–45
Rich, Perry C, 458
Richmond High School, 64–65
Richmond Star, 63–64, 65, 69
Richthofen, Manfred von, 436
Riddell, John Leonard, 279
Rike, Daniel L., 85
Riley, James Whitcomb, 24
Ritty, James, 158
“Road to Justice, The,” 496
Roanoke Island, 185, 191, 192
rocket-engine technology, 474
Rockwell, Lewis, 458, 464
Rodgers, Calbraith Perry, 436, 437, 438–39
Rodgers, John, 435, 438
Rodgers, Mabel, 438–39
Rogers, Robert Perry, 506
roll control, 167–70, 172, 201, 443
Rolls, Charles Stewart, 389, 435
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 502, 503, 520
Roosevelt, Theodore, 331, 351, 431
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 374
Root, Amos I., 279–80, 284–85
Roques, General, 337
Royal Aeronautical Society, 307
Royal Engineer Committee, 294–95, 305
Royal Society, 176
Ruck, Richard, 294
rudders, 15, 167–68, 169, 235, 251, 253–54, 257, 267, 282, 312, 462
control of, 295, 396
fixed, 236, 237–38, 238, 239
movable, 238–39, 240, 299
two-surface vertical, 235, 238, 239, 255
Ruhl, Arthur, 357–58
Ruse, Cordy, 114, 115, 188
Russell, Frank, 411, 434, 438, 456
Russell, George, 479, 513
Russia, Imperial, 330
Ryan, Thomas F., 409
sabotage, 90
“Sailing Flight” (Lilienthal), 178
St. Clair, Arthur, 113
St. Clair bicycle, 113
St. Louis Exposition, 229–30, 231, 248, 259, 260, 278, 290, 291
Salley, D. Bruce, 355–56, 357, 443–44
Saltzman, Charles, 398
Sandburg, Carl, 502
San Francisco earthquake (1906), 314, 351
Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 250–51, 272, 282, 290, 303. 342, 353, 364, 416
world’s first public flight by, 317, 324–26, 328, 345. 441
Saulnier, Ralph, 405
Savoia, Umberto, 388
“Scandal of the First Man-Carrying Aeroplane, The,” 491
Scenes in the Church Commission During the Last Day of Its Session (Wright), 78, 79, 80, 95
Schenck & Williams, 448, 477
Scherl, Herr, 405
Schindler, Reuben, 298
Science Museum of London, 491–92, 506, 520, 521, 525, 526
Scientific American, 285, 307, 312–13, 327, 328–29, 362, 363, 498
Scientific American Trophy, 363–64, 402, 425
SC-1, 361, 373
Scott, Frank, 458, 464
Scott, J. F., 348
Scott, Walter, 78
Scripps, William E., 508
Seasholes, Charles Lyon, 512, 524–25
seat belts, 435
secret societies, 25, 29–30, 35, 41–42, 51, 63, 67, 68, 78–79, 484
Selden, George, 462
Selfridge, Edward R., 399
Selfridge, Thomas Etholen, 351–53, 360, 372, 373
fatal flying accident of, 375–77, 379, 399, 435, 464
“separate but equal” doctrine, 136
Seventh Street School, 57–58
Seward, William Henry, 29
Shakespeare, William, 146
Shonts, Theodore P., 409
Short, Eustace, 389, 410, 435, 451, 488
Short, Oswald, 389, 410, 435, 451, 488
Short Brothers balloon factory, 388–89
Shuey, William J., 85
Silliman, Harriet, 173
Silver Dart, 400
Simms Station, 278–79, 426, 433
Simplex Automobile Company, 466
Sines, Ed “Jamsie,” 48, 58, 94, 96, 104–5, 107, 109, 111, 112
Sines & Wright, 94
Skeel, Burt, 511
Slipstream, 505
Smeaton, John, 175–76, 177, 214, 220, 226
Smith, Charles E., 138
Smithsonian Annual Report, 162, 487
Smithsonian Institution, 180, 329, 390
aeronautics and, 140–42, 152, 153, 154, 160, 161–62, 171, 257, 262, 350, 501
Arts and Industries Building of, 527–29
National Museum of, 445, 492, 520, 526–29
Orville’s feud with, 57, 484–502, 519–21
Wright Flyer (1903) at, 526–29
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 520
Snap-Shots of Current Events, 111, 113
Société Astra, 383, 416, 433, 440
Société Autour du Monde, 383
Society for the Encouragement of Peace, 383
Solirène, Monsieur, 317
“Some Aeronautical Experiments” (Wright), 232
Sonora, 37
Southard, Fred, 437
Spaatz, Carl, 524
Spanish-American War, 347
spars, 280, 282, 283
Sperry, Elmer, 459
Sperry, Lawrence, 459–60
Spirit of St. Louis, 502–3, 528
Spitler, Doctor, 108, 157, 449
split flap device, 15, 471–72
Spratt, George Alexander, 76–77, 205–8, 212–13, 219, 225, 236–37, 253, 255, 259, 301, 329, 421–22
sprockets, 259, 261
Squier, George, 347–48, 372, 375, 378, 379, 392
Stack, John, 528–29
Standard Aircraft, 470
Standard S-1 aircraft, 510
“Stardust Twins,” 431
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,”
527, 528
State Anti-Secrecy Society, 51
Stauffer, Amos, 285, 298, 299, 308
Steele High School, 121, 122
Steeper, Harold, 525, 526
Steinmetz, Charles, 508
Stephens, Thomas, 31
Stinson, Eddie, 436
Stinson Aircraft, 436
stopwatches, 267, 398, 399
“Story of Experiments in Mechanical Flight,
The” (Langley), 162
Stout, Lansing, 37
streetcars, 46, 158
struts, 173
Sublimity College, 37
submarines, 167, 267, 328
Summit Street house, 66
supersonic flight research program, 529
Surcouf, Edouard, 342, 368
Swann, Leroy, 511
Sweet, George, 398
Syndicat d’Aviation, 322
“Tactical and Strategic Value of Dirigible Balloons and Aerodynamical Machines, The,” 372–73
Taft, William Howard, 292, 304, 331, 390, 391, 392, 398–99, 417, 449, 489, 491
tails:
cruciform, 154, 155, 168, 257, 262
four-bladed, 168–69
two-cell kite as, 322
vertical, 254
see also elevators; rudders
takeoffs, 281–84, 299
gravity assisted, 255
unassisted, 381
water, 458
see also launch mechanisms
Talbott, Harold, 468–69
Talbott, Harold, Jr., 468–69
Targe, A. L., 337, 339
Taschenbuch zum praktischen Gebrauch für Flugtechniker und Luftshiffer (Moedebeck), 219–20, 232
Tate, Dan, 196, 209, 256, 258–59
Tate, Mrs. William, 187–88, 187, 199, 207
Tate, Tom, 196–97
Tate, William J., 183, 187–88, 187, 189, 190, 192, 193–94, 195–96, 207, 209, 236, 241, 267, 505
Tatin, Victor, 275, 336
Tattler, 101
Taylor, Bayard, 37
Taylor, Charles, 203–5, 438–39, 509
European trip of, 339, 341–42
Wrights assisted by, 117, 121, 204–5, 244–45, 245, 253, 259, 260, 274, 371, 376, 377–78, 407, 412, 426
Wrights recalled by, 117–18, 204, 243, 244, 273, 283
Taylor, David Wilson, 492
Taylor, Henrietta Webbert, 204
Taylor, Lady Jane, 330, 333
telephone, invention of, 138, 350
temperance, 25–26, 29, 30, 41, 51, 67
Ten Dayton Boys, 74, 74, 117
thermodynamics, 175
three-axis control, 15, 167–70, 322, 383, 422
Tissandier, Paul, 385, 386
Tomlinson, John, 300
Toulmin, Henry A., 276, 277, 300, 418, 448, 497
toys, 56–57, 128, 159, 164, 362, 515
Wright-made, 15, 127, 515–16
transmission systems, 243–44, 256, 260, 261, 267
“Tribute to the Wright Brothers” (Bell), 326
triplanes, 156, 239
Trowbridge, John, 137
Truman, Harry S., 521, 528
tuberculosis, 32, 63, 77
Tunison, Frank, 271, 274
Turpin, J. Clifford, 428, 436
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