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Newspapers and Journals
Aero Club of America Bulletin
Aero Club of America News
Aeronautical Journal
Aeronautics
L’Aérophile
Albuquerque Journal-Democrat
Atlanta Constitution
L’Auto
The Auto: The Motorist’s Pictorial
Autocar
Automotor Journal
Chicago Chronicle
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Examiner
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Collier’s Weekly
Dayton Daily News
Dayton Evening News
Dayton Herald
Dayton Journal
Dayton Press
Echo de Paris
Evening Item
Flight Magazine
Flyer
Gleanings in Bee Culture
Harper’s Weekly
L’Illustration
London Daily Mail
London Daily Mirror
London Times
Le Matin
Medina County Gazette
Milwaukee Journal
Motor Car Journal
New York Evening Sun
New York Evening Telegram
New York Journal
New York Sun
New York Times
New York World
Paris Daily Mail
Paris Herald
Le Petit Journal
Philadelphia Inquirer
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientific American
St. Louis Post-Dis
patch
U.S. Air Services
La Vie Au Grand Air
Waco, Texas, Times-Herald
Washington Evening Star
Washington Herald
Washington Post
Washington Times
West Side News
World Magazine
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Part title images: L’Empire du L’Aire by Louis-Pierre Mouillard.
Frontis, 1–4, 7, 8, 10–12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 35, 39, 41, 49, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 68–71, 74, 75, 77, 81: Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University.
5, 6, 18, 24, 27, 31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 44, 48, 54, 63–65, 72, 73, 78: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
9: Map Division, Library of Congress.
13: Courtesy Curt Dalton, Dayton, Ohio.
15, 21, 32, 47, 52, 53, 55, 60, 66, 67: Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Library of Congress.
16: From the NCR Archive Dayton History, Dayton, Ohio.
19, 40: Courtesy, Nick Engler, Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company.
23: Local History Room, Dayton Metropolitan Library, Dayton, Ohio.
25, 26, 37, 42, 45, 79, 80: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
28: NASA Langley Research Center.
29: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C.
30: Courtesy Division of Publications, Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
43: Courtesy London Science Museum, London, England.
50: Illustration by Michael Gellatly.
51: Manatee County Public Library Digital Collection, Bradenton, Florida.
58: Author’s Collection.
76: Courtesy Edward Roach, Chief Historian, Dayton Aviation Heritage, National Historic Park, Dayton, Ohio.
INDEX
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abolition, 11
Académie des Sports, 206
Adena Miamisburg Mound, 21–22
Ader, Clément, 33
Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), 190, 198, 239
Aero Club of America, 221, 229, 239
Aéro-Club de France, 90, 146, 153, 168, 206, 222
banquet by, 206–8
aerodrome, 33, 80, 99–100, 259
Aeronautical Journal, 70
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 70, 224
aeronautics, 32–33, 36, 38, 69
Aeronautics, 249, 255
Aérophile, L’, 91, 172, 208
Aeroplane Club of Dayton, 252
“aerostat,” 34
ailerons, 240
air races, 239
Albuquerque Journal-Democrat, 86
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 219, 220
Algeria, 37
Allegheny Observatory, 33
alphabet soup, 164
Aluminum Company of America, 87
American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, The, 22
anemometer, 57
Animal Locomotion; or Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aeronautics (Pettigrew), 30
Animal Mechanism (Marey), 29–30
Archdeacon, Ernest, 153, 168, 172, 206
Wright brothers scorned by, 168
Architect and Building News, 19
Arlington Cemetery, 198, 199
arms dealers, 137
Armstrong, Neil, 262
Army, U.S., 153
Signal Corps of, 192
Associated Press, 109
Atlanta Constitution, 241
Atlantic Monthly, The, 12
Auto, L’, 160
automobiles, 31, 221
“Baby Grand” model, 258
Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth, 204
Baldwin, Tom, 239
Balfour, Arthur, 214
Balfour, Lady, 214
Baltic, RMS, 153
Barthou, Louis, 207, 210–11
Bates, J. C., 128
Battery Park, 243
Beard, Luther, 115
Beckel Hotel, 131
Belgium, 149
Bell, Alexander Graham, 33, 92, 93, 190, 198, 199, 229, 239, 240, 252
Berg, Edith, 137, 143, 204, 206, 212, 215
Berg, Hart O., 131, 134, 136–37, 138, 140–44, 146–49, 152, 160, 161, 166, 167, 169–72, 176, 193, 204, 206, 212, 237
in Rome, 222, 223
Berlin, 149, 152, 240, 241, 255
Berry, Walter, 132, 200
bicycles, bicycling, 21–22, 25, 38, 48
bicycling clubs, 22
“Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?,” 85
biplanes, 39, 68
birds, 29, 36, 37, 38, 92, 124
at Kitty Hawk, 51–52
Wrights’ fascination with, 51, 124–25
Blériot, Louis, 132, 152, 168, 171, 173, 206, 237–38, 239, 240
Board of Ordnance and Fortification, 123, 128
Bollée, Léon, 160–61, 165–66, 167, 170, 171, 173, 193, 199–200, 204, 206, 224
Bonel, Henri, 131–32, 133, 142
Borglum, Gutzon, 181, 184–85
Boutioux, Colonel, 204
Brandreth, Joseph, 167, 172, 174
Brinkley, W. C., 103
Buist, H. Massac, 215
Burkhardt, Edward, 228–29
buzzards (turkey vultures), 51–52
Cabot, Godfrey and Samuel, 110
Café Alcazar, 147
Café Anglais, 140
Cailletet, M. L. P., 207
camber, 61
Campania, RMS, 135–36
Camp d’Auvours, 177, 188, 193, 194, 210
Wilbur’s record-breaking flight at, 197
Cannon, Joseph, 234
Capper, John Edward, 122, 124
Carnegie, Andrew, 71
Cathédrale Saint-Julien, 163–64
Cayley, George, 32, 33
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 11
Celleri, Contessa, 224
Centocelle, 223–24
Champs-Elysées, 147
Chanute, Octave, 33, 35, 39, 55, 59, 63, 66, 67, 68, 70–71, 79–80, 90–91, 94, 98, 101, 122, 124, 128, 134, 155, 186, 192, 198, 199, 206, 231, 239–40, 255
Dayton visited by, 56–57
financial help offered by, 70–71
at Kitty Hawk, 62–63
misrepresentation of own involvement by, 90
Wilbur’s correspondence with, 40, 68–69
Wilbur’s falling out with, 249–51
Wilbur’s tribute to, 255–56
Chicago Tribune, 85, 100–101, 110, 171, 210, 239
Christian Science Monitor, 252
Cincinnati Enquirer, 110
Cincinnati Pike, 21
Cincinnati Times-Star, 241
Clemenceau, Georges, 215
“Cocaine Toothache Drops,” 14
Cogswell, “Doc,” 54
Collier’s Weekly, 157–58
Colt firearms factory, 137
Compagnie Générale de Navigation Aérienne, La, 153
Congress, U.S., 221
controlled flight, see flight, controlled
Cordley, Frank, 137, 146, 147, 148
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 140
Cosmopolitan, 35
Cosmos Club, 181, 229
Cox, James, 116
Cunard Line, 135
Curtiss, Glenn, 239–40, 241, 242, 243, 249, 259
Curtiss Company, 252
Czolgosz, Leon, 66
Daily News, 127–28, 233
Daniels, John T., 53, 54, 77, 102, 103–4, 105, 106, 108, 120, 156
“Darius Green and his Flying Machine” (Trowbridge), 34–35
Davis Sewing Machine Company,
36
Dayton, Jonathan, 12
Dayton, Ohio, 5, 11–13, 66, 92–93
Chanute’s visit to, 56
1898 flood in, 31
Great Homecoming in, 230–33
Orville’s return to, after hospital stay, 200–201
patent creation in, 35–36
population of, 85
Wright brothers’ initial return to, 56
Wright family home in, 11, 15–16, 21, 23, 228
Wrights’ return to, 227–29
Dayton Asylum for the Insane, 15
Dayton Daily Journal, 109
Dayton Daily News, 71, 109, 116, 231–32
Dayton Free Press, 66
Dayton Herald, 131, 176, 184
Dayton Journal, 14, 115, 171, 184, 200
Dayton Western and Union Railroad, 16
Delagrange, Léon, 152, 160, 173, 174–75, 188, 206, 239, 249
Delair, Frédéric, 148
de Lambert, Charles, 152, 205, 206, 209, 215, 217, 219, 237, 239
in flight over Paris, 247–48
solo flight of, 220
de Lambert, Comtesse, 215
de La Vaulx, Henri, 90
Deutsch de la Meurthe, Henri, 142, 143
Dewey, Orville, 11
diabolo (toy), 150–51
dihedral angle, 52
dirigible, 143
Dosher, Joseph J., 41, 110
Dough, Will, 103
“drag,” 69–70
dry-plate cameras, 29
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 19–20
Dyer, Charles, 34
Eastman, George, 35
Echo de Paris, 171
Edgerton, James A., 221
Edison, Thomas, 12, 33, 252
Edward VII, King of England, 219–20
Egypt, 37
Eiffel, Gustave, 141, 206
Eiffel Tower, 248
elevators, 35
Elizabeth City, N.C., 44, 58
Empire of the Air (Mouillard), 36–37, 51–52
employment, 86
“Encourage Your Boy,” 19
Engineering Magazine, The, 67
English Channel, 237
equilibrium, 38, 48
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert, 240
Estournelles de Constant, Baron d’, 207
Etheridge, Adam, 102, 103
Evening Item, The, 20
Fairmont, Ind., 11
Farman, Henri, 152, 160, 168, 239
Feight, George, 96, 127
Feight, John, 127
Ferber, Ferdinand, 249
Figaro, Le, 171, 172, 174, 177, 204–5, 215
First Presbyterian Church, 257
Fiske, Wilbur, 11
“Fliers or Liars” (Paris Herald), 132
flight, controlled, 36–37
danger of, 35