Wikijunior:Famous Inventors/Inventors in Transportation/Wilber and Orville Wright

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[edit] Where they were born.

They were born in the United States of America.

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[edit] What was there childhood like?

Did You Know?

  • They invented the first working airplane!
  • It was called Kitty Hawk
  • The flight lasted only 12 seconds! Its next flight was 59 seconds.

Catherine Koerner (1831–1889). Wilbur Wright was born near Millville, Indiana in 1867; Orville in Dayton, Ohio in 1871. The brothers never married. The other Wright siblings were named Reuchlin (1861–1920), Lorin (1862–1939), Katharine (1874–1929), and twins Otis and Ida.

[edit] Why did this person become interested in science?

[edit] Did this person go to school?

Yes they did go to school.

[edit] What problem did he or she uncover that needed solving?

[edit] What solutions had already been tried that did not solve the problem? Why wasn't it working?

[edit] What they invented.

They invented the first airplane that flew under its own power.

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[edit] How did the invention solve the problem?

[edit] How has this inventor changed people and the world?

[edit] When they died.

Wilbur died in 1912, Orville died in 1948

Kitty Hawk, 1903, on a 2001 coin

[edit] If you could ask this inventor one question, what would you ask?

How did you make a plane? How did you start off?

[edit] If you could bring this inventor to today and tell him or her one thing, what would you tell him or her about the effect of his or her invention?

[edit] References

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