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         - Description: Image of Wilbur Wright, taken in 1905.
 
         - Source:  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00683/?co=wri
 
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        English: Early Wright brother’s airplanes explored basic principles of flight. The Wright brothers are widely credited with engineering the first aircraft capable of sustained powered flight.
        
        
        
         
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               US inventors ***  Smithsonian Stories of the Wright flights ***  National Park Service, Wright Brothers' Memorial ***  PBS Nova: The Wright Brothers' Flying Machines 
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