Wilbur and Orville Wright inaugurated the aerial age with their historic first powered airplane flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. The brothers used this stopwatch to time their flights.

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February 08, 2016

Photographer:

Eric Long

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NASM2018-00331

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

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