Wright Brothers: How Two Uneducated Siblings Achieved Flight

How Wilbur and Orville built the world's first successful airplane. Visit https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ to get started learning STEM for FREE and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.Show more

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0:31 Color photo: John T. Daniels (restoration & colorization by Wright Stuf), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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6:17 Transcript of Wilbur Wright's speech https://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/library/Aeronautical.html
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