Conquest of the Skies Wright Brothers Portfolio 75th Anniversary of First Flight

NASM.2019.0042

1978

Leonard C. Bruno, Gift, 2019, NASM.2019.0042

0.2 Cubic feet (One 11 by 14 inch folder.)

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Conquest of the Skies Wright Brothers Portfolio is the commemorative portfolio compiled by the Franklin Institute in 1978 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers. The portfolio contains one 12 by 15 inch photograph of the first flight, seven 8 by 10 inch photographs of Wright gliders and flyers, two photographs of the lift balance in the wind tunnel, a 20 page historical booklet, "First Flight: the Story of Wilbur and Orville Wright's Invention of the Airplane," and reproductions of the following: May 1900 five-page letter from Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute detailing his plans to build a flying machine; Wright's calculations made on the back of scraps of wallpaper; Wright Brothers' first patent (with drawings); telegram announcing the first flight; and the first published account of the Wrights' successful development of the airplane from "Gleanings in Bee Culture."

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Conquest of the Skies Wright Brothers Portfolio [75th Anniversary of First Flight], NASM.2019.0042, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Aeronautics

Wright (Brothers) 1903 Flyer

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Archival materials

Portfolios (groups of works)