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2003 Annual Report Strategic Milestones
2003 Annual Report strategic milestones 1996 September The Institute’s Board of Trustees approves the Strategic Plan for 1996-2005. 1998 November The Strategic Plan is updated and approved to include a capital campaign plan. 1999 March April 29 The National Science Foundation awards At The Franklin Institute grant to help fund KidScience, the Institute’s Awards Dinner, Pennsylvania first exhibit dedicated specifically to children Governor Tom Ridge announces ages 5-8 and their caregivers. a $17.5 million Redevelopment Franklin…He’s Electric opens as part of the Assistance Grant to support Institute’s 175th anniversary celebration. the capital campaign. 2000 November Public capital campaign is launched. The Sports Challenge, a campaign-funded exhibit, opens. Fundraising exceeds $35 million, meeting the 2-for-1 match required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s grant. 2001 March May November December The Wright Model B KidScience opens Ribbon- New west Flyer is disassembled cutting fire tower and sent to ceremony for completed. Aeroplane Works The Train in Dayton, Ohio for Factory. restoration. 2002 January March June September October November December Fels Planetarium, the Sci-Store, a 4,500 square-foot retail The new South fire tower is Dedication of Governor Mark Home of second oldest public space, opens in the lower Mandell Harcourt Teacher completed, fulfilling Fels Schweiker Freedom planetarium in the Center. Board of Trustees reconfirms Leadership the Institute’s Life Planetarium announces a signature film Western Hemisphere, the Strategic Plan for 2002-2005, Center opens on Safety plan, bringing the and premiere $7 million opens in closes for renovation. which includes a Vision for the the first floor. -
Katharine Wright Haskell (1874 – 1929) Papers, 1922-1928 (55 Folders)
Western Historical Manuscript Collection Kansas City KC263 – Katharine Wright Haskell (1874 – 1929) Papers, 1922-1928 (55 folders) Provenance: These letters were received as accession number 610kc from Mrs. Henry C. Haskell, the widow of Henry C. Haskell, stepson of Katharine Wright Haskell. Mrs. Henry C. Haskell loaned this material to Western Historical Manuscript Collection for microfilming on 20 October 1990. Biography: Katharine Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1874, the last child and only daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Milton Wright of the United Brethren Church. Her four older brothers included Wilbur and Orville Wright, the first men to accomplish powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. Katharine graduated from Oberlin College of Ohio in 1898 and after, taught Latin at Steele high school in Dayton and helped her brothers raise money for their famous project. Giving speeches and writing letters on behalf of the airplane experiment, Katharine was known to have been as necessary to the success of the flight at Kitty Hawk as were her brothers. Always maintaining close ties with her alma mater, she was elected to the Board of Trustees of Oberlin College. Katharine had met and become friends with Henry Haskell and with Isabel Cummings while the three were students at Oberlin College. Henry and Isabel were married in 1901. The couple were frequent guests at the Wright home in Dayton over the years, and when Isabel died in 1923, Henry resumed a correspondence with Katharine. In time, a romance developed. Wilbur, Orville and Katharine, each unmarried, lived together in Dayton. -
MS-1 PART III Photographs
MS-1: Wright Brothers Collection PART III WRIGHT FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION This series includes many original photographic prints made by the Wrights from their own negatives shortly after the images were taken. The Wrights exposed at least 303 gelatin dry plate negatives in the course of documenting their process of invention. All of their glass plate negatives were given to the Library of Congress in 1949, but many of their original prints remained with the Estate of Orville Wright. Many of the Wright Brothers’ original negatives were damaged in Dayton’s great flood of 1913, when they were submerged for up to four days. The Wright State University collection includes some images for which no negatives exist at the Library of Congress and so many of these prints are unique. In addition, this collection includes hundreds of prints collected by the Wrights through their association with other aviation pioneers such as Octave Chanute, and a great variety of aeronautical prints either collected by them, or sent to them by well-wishers through the years. While the major prints exist in both collections, both the Wright State University collection and the Wright collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress contain many images that are unique to each collection. Wilbur and Orville Wright began photographing their experiences on the Outer Banks using a 4 x 5 inch dry plate camera. In 1902 they purchased a Korona view camera which used 5 x 7 inch dry plates. They developed their negatives and made prints in the darkroom they set up at their home in Dayton. -
The Reims Air Races
Reims Air races and the Gordon Bennett Trophy Bleriot's cross-Channel flight excited Europe as nothing else had. The City of Reims and the French vintners of the Champagne region decided to sponsor a week of aviation exhibition and competition, putting up large purses in prize money, the most prestigious being the International Aviation Cup, known as the Gordon Bennett Trophy, after its sponsor, James Gordon Bennett, the flamboyant American publisher of the New York Herald and the Paris Herald. The meet attracted the cream of European society, from royalty and generals to ambassadors and the merely wealthy, to the Betheny Plain outside Reims from August 22 to 29, 1909. While there were to be many other such meets before and after World War 1, none would match Reims for grandeur and elegance or for sheer excitement. The major European manufacturers, all French, entered various events. There were 'planes by Bleriot, Voisin, Antoinette, and Farman, and even several French-built Wrights. The Wrights themselves had passed on an invitation to race at Reims, which was awkward since the Gordon Bennett Trophy was crowned with a large replica of a Wright Flyer. The Aero Club of America, which had sponsored the Scientific American trophy won by Curtiss a year earlier, turned to Curtiss. Curtiss' June Bug was not as well developed a plane as the Wright machines (and possibly the Wrights were hoping to drive this point home if Curtiss failed at Reims) and while it was more maneuverable than the European planes, it was not nearly as fast. 1909 Voisin 1 Curtiss worked feverishly to produce a more powerful engine and stripped down his airplane to give it greater speed. -
Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence
MS-585 Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence Collection Number: MS-585 Title: Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence Dates: 1900-1939 (bulk 1900-1917) Creator: Wright, Milton, 1823-1917. Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929. Wright, Orville, 1871-1948. Wright, Reuchlin, 1861-1920. Summary/Abstract: The Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence primarily contains letters written by Milton Wright to his niece Estella Harris Petree. The letters describe Wright family news and activities, but more importantly include specific references to Wilbur and Orville Wright’s bicycle business, flying experiments and success, Orville Wright’s accident at Ft. Myer in September 1908, the 1913 Dayton flood, and Milton’s flight with Orville in May 1910. There is also a very poignant letter written by Reuchlin Wright describing the death of his father, Milton, in 1917. Additional items include correspondence from Orville Wright and two photographs that appear to be clipped from publications. Quantity: .5 linear feet Language(s): English Repository: Special Collections and Archives, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435-0001, (937) 775-2092 Restrictions on Access: There are no restrictions on accessing material in this collection. Restrictions on Use: Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder. Preferred Citation: (Box Number, Item Number), MS-585, Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Acquisition: The Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence was donated by Mary Carlton in October 2010. -
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Wright Company The Wright Company was incorporated on November 22, 1909. The Wright Company factory was completed in November 1910 and a duplicate factory building was erected in 1911. The buildings continued in use until the Wright Company was sold, October 15, 1915. Series of nine interior views of the factory of the French firm of Astra, Societé de Constructions Aeronautiques, Paris, which was building Wright airplanes in 1909 under license from the Wright brothers. L’Aviation illustrée, v. 1, May 29, 1909: 1 Exterior view of Wright Company factory, Dayton, 1910. World’s Work, v. 20, Aug. 1910: 13311 Exterior end views of Wright Company factory, Dayton, 1911. LC-W86-98; LC-W86-121; SMIN 38,530-C; SMIN 38,531-B Exterior side views of Wright Company factory, Dayton, 1911. LC-W86-95; LC-W86-96; Aircraft, v. 2, Sept. 1911: 246; HAWBHP 94; SMIN 3830-O Interior views of Wright Company factory, Dayton, including views of the assembly of wing frames, biplane strut construction, elevator and rudder frame construction, and runner construction. Allg Auto Zeit, v. 10, Mar. 26, 1909: 41; LOUVA fac ing 164, 170,402,404; SBNA 83 (two views) Series of interior views of Wright Company factory, Dayton. WADC 252372-252383 Series of interior views of Wright Company factory, Dayton. SMIN 32,120-E; SMIN 32,122-Q; SMIN 36-323-A; SMIN 38,524-E; SMIN 38,530-B; SMIN 38,530-J; SMIN 38,531-A Interior view of Wright Company factory, Dayton, 1911, show ing three airplanes in process of assembly. -
United States Women in Aviation Through World War I
United States Women in Aviation through World War I Claudia M.Oakes •^ a. SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN AIR AND SPACE • NUMBER 2 SERIES PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Emphasis upon publication as a means of "diffusing knowledge" was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry outlined a program that included the following statement: "It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge." This theme of basic research has been adhered to through the years by thousands of titles issued in series publications under the Smithsonian imprint, commencing with Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge in 1848 and continuing with the following active series: Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics Smithsonian Contributions to Botany Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology In these series, the Institution publishes small papers and full-scale monographs that report the research and collections of its various museums and bureaux or of professional colleagues in the world of science and scholarship. The publications are distributed by mailing lists to libraries, universities, and similar institutions throughout the world. Papers or monographs submitted for series publication are received by the Smithsonian Institution Press, subject to its own review for format and style, only through departments of the various Smithsonian museums or bureaux, where the manuscripts are given sub stantive review. -
Through the Eyes of Pioneers: Accounts of the Women╎s
Wright State University CORE Scholar Master of Humanities Capstone Projects Master of Humanities Program 2015 Through the Eyes of Pioneers: Accounts of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Dayton, Ohio (1890-1920) Michelle Schweickart Wright State University - Main Campus Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/humanities Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Repository Citation Schweickart, M. (2015). Through the Eyes of Pioneers: Accounts of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Dayton, Ohio (1890-1920) (Master's thesis). Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Master of Humanities Program at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master of Humanities Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Through the Eyes of Pioneers: Accounts of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Dayton, Ohio (1890-1920) By: Michelle Schweickart “I believe in woman suffrage because I believe in fundamental democracy. There can be no fundamental democracy where half the population, being of sound mind, are compelled to obey laws in the making of which they have had no voice . But if I must say more, then I would say that women today need, and are asking for the ballot not because they wish to forsake their homes, but because they wish to make their homes better places to live in. Woman needs the ballot to protect her home and her children, now as always her first care . .” - Grace Isabel Colbron, “Why I Believe in Woman Suffrage,” n.d. -
The Wright Brothers Played with As Small Boys
1878 1892 The Flying Toy: A small toy “helicopter”— made of wood with two twisted rubber bands to turn a small propeller—that the Wright brothers played with as small boys. The Bicycle Business: The Wright brothers opened a bicycle store in 1892. Their 1900 experience with bicycles aided them in their The Wright Way: investigations of flight. The Process of Invention The Search for Control: From their observations of how buzzards kept their balance, the Wright brothers began their aeronautical research in 1899 with a kite/glider. In 1900, they built their first glider designed to carry a pilot. Wilbur and Orville Wright Inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright placed their names firmly in the hall of great 1901 American inventors with the creation of the world’s first successful powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight Ohio with a pilot aboard. The age of powered flight began with the Wright 1903 Flyer on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills, NC. The Wright brothers began serious experimentation in aeronautics in 1899 and perfected a controllable craft by 1905. In six years, the Wrights had used remarkable creativity and originality to provide technical solutions, practical mechanical Birthplace design tools, and essential components that resulted in a profitable aircraft. They did much more than simply get a flying machine off the ground. They established the fundamental principles of aircraft design and engineering in place today. In 1908 and 1909, they demonstrated their flying machine pub- licly in the United States and Europe. By 1910, the Wright Company was of Aviation manufacturing airplanes for sale. -
Up from Kitty Hawk Chronology
airforcemag.com Up From Kitty Hawk Chronology AIR FORCE Magazine's Aerospace Chronology Up From Kitty Hawk PART ONE PART TWO 1903-1979 1980-present 1 airforcemag.com Up From Kitty Hawk Chronology Up From Kitty Hawk 1903-1919 Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hill, N.C., 1903. Articles noted throughout the chronology provide additional historical information. They are hyperlinked to Air Force Magazine's online archive. 1903 March 23, 1903. First Wright brothers’ airplane patent, based on their 1902 glider, is filed in America. Aug. 8, 1903. The Langley gasoline engine model airplane is successfully launched from a catapult on a houseboat. Dec. 8, 1903. Second and last trial of the Langley airplane, piloted by Charles M. Manly, is wrecked in launching from a houseboat on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Dec. 17, 1903. At Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, N.C., Orville Wright flies for about 12 seconds over a distance of 120 feet, achieving the world’s first manned, powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air machine. The Wright brothers made four flights that day. On the last, Wilbur Wright flew for 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. (Three days earlier, Wilbur Wright had attempted the first powered flight, managing to cover 105 feet in 3.5 seconds, but he could not sustain or control the flight and crashed.) Dawn at Kill Devil Jewel of the Air 1905 Jan. 18, 1905. The Wright brothers open negotiations with the US government to build an airplane for the Army, but nothing comes of this first meeting. -
Preface: the Wright Myth
P R E F A C E : T H E W R I G H T M Y T H t is hard to get flesh and bones on these two men. They come to us as stick figures in vests and white shirts, with their hard shoes Ihanging off the back of their flyers. They seem to not be of the earth and have few worldly desires after the desire to fly. Historians tramp from the Outer Banks to Dayton, Ohio, then to the Smithsonian in Washington or to the Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, to see the Wrights’ bicycle shop. And after seeing the Wright Flyer in Washington or the markers in Kitty Hawk, they sit down to write the “Wright story.” It is a fact that the two men in the derbies have eluded historians and the rest of us for a long time. They were elusive men, after all, and so the questions linger behind the legend and the façade of the two Arrow collar young men who dazzled the world in 1903. History would have us believe that the Wright brothers were one in the same: Somehow, they both invented manned flight. They both had the same epiphanic moments while working on their gliders in Kitty Hawk. They both studied birds and deduced that wing warping was the key to controlled flight. They both worked out the complex aeronautical data that went into determining the amount of lift, the shape, the very design of a wing that would enable them to ascend to the heavens. -
A Guide to Teaching the Invention of Flight
A guide to teaching the invention of flight Wright Brothers Teacher’s Guide This curriculum guide was developed in partnership by Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and the Dayton Daily News Newspapers In Education (NIE) program as an outreach to students. This information focuses on the Wright brothers’ work in Dayton, Ohio, which led to the invention of free, controlled and sustained flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine. As we approach the 100th anniversary of flight and increased attention is given to the achievements of the Wright brothers, this guide — based on state and national standards — is intended to enrich your existing classroom curricula. Included is background information on the Wright brothers with guided questions, teacher instructions and six student activity sheets. Supplemental materials included are a list of Web sites and books, an Aviation Trail brochure and Dayton area map. We hope you find this to be a useful educational tool for your classroom. Enjoy your trip along the Aviation Trail! Wright brothers background information written by: Mark Bernstein, author of Grand Eccentrics, Orange Frazer Press, 1996. Activities written by: Vickie Hesler Bern Schwieterman Teacher, Neff Elementary Teacher, Southdale Elementary Miamisburg City Schools Kettering City Schools Developed and edited by: Sandy Eichhorn Hilt Ann Deines Educational Services Director Chief, Education and Resources Management Dayton Daily News/Springfield News-Sun Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Photos courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University. Teacher’s Guide Introduction and the Family of the Wright Brothers PRELEARNING ACTIVITY Church of the United Brethren in Christ; for many years, he had charge of the church’s publishing work, Ask students: conducted here in Dayton.