denounciations of possibility of, 69, 70
early ridicule of, 33–35
early work on, 33–35
equilibrium in, 38, 48
Wilbur’s first test of, 39
“wing warping” in, 39
Flint, Charles, 134, 135, 136, 192, 195
Flint & Company, 134, 136, 143, 144, 145–46, 147
Flyer, 89–90, 93, 94, 95, 97–98, 103–4, 126
engine of, 86–88, 92, 98
first flights of, 102–8
press accounts of flight of, 109–10
propellers for, 88–90, 92
rudder of, 79, 90
Wilbur as first operator of, 102–3
wing-warping system of, 63–64, 90
wooden track for, 99, 102
wrecking of, 106
Flyer (dog), 176
Flyer II:
British interest in buying of, 122
engine of, 111
first flight of, 113–14
first successful turn by, 116
lack of media interest in, 121–22
lack of public interest in, 116–17
Orville’s crash in, 115, 119
Root’s account of flight of, 119–21
starting apparatus for, 115–16
Flyer III, 124–27, 128–29, 132, 133, 134, 147, 153, 156, 177
design of, 125
engine of, 135
as first practical airplane, 124
Le Mans flights of, 169–76
press response to demonstration of, 171–72
sale to French of, 129, 131–32, 142–43, 149, 153
shipping damage to, 162–63
two operators carried by, 156
Wilbur’s repairs of, 162–63
Flyer magazine, 215
Flying, 67
Fordyce, Arnold, 129, 131–32, 142, 204, 212
Fort Myer, Va., 178, 181, 182, 195, 229, 234–39
Orville’s crash at, 191–92, 193–95
Orville’s test flights at, 182–86, 189, 190–91
Fournier, Jules, 132
Fourth National Bank, 113
Fouts, W. C., 127–28
France, 90–91, 155
sale of Flyer III to, 129, 131–32, 142–43, 149, 153
Wilbur’s popularity in, 203–6
Franklin, Benjamin, 203
Freemasonry, 11, 72
Fulton, Robert, 241
Furnas, Charlie, 156, 158, 182, 191, 198
gannets, 53
Gasnier, René, 171
Germany, 134, 149, 244
Gleanings in Bee Culture, 117, 118, 121
glider-kite, 37–38
gliders, 28–29, 33, 42, 44, 47–48, 55, 56–57, 91–92
Governors Island, 241–42, 243
“Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne, La” (air race), 239
Grand Hôtel Gassion, 212–13
Grant’s Tomb, 245
Great Aerodrome, 93, 96–97
Green, Darius (char.), 34–35, 100, 109, 119
Greenfield Village, 261
Griscom, Lloyd, 223
Grumbach, Carrie Kayler, 40, 57, 107, 111, 201, 211, 218, 257, 261
Gundlach Korona V, 105
Hale, Frank, 127
Hamberger, Frank, 31, 127
Hare, James, 158
Harper’s Weekly, 244
Hartsville, Ind., 11
Haskell, Henry J., 258
Haugh, Oliver Crook, 14–15
hawks, 52
hen hawks, 52
Henry IV, King of France, 212
Herring, Augustus, 79, 240
Herring-Curtiss Company, 240
Hill, James J., 223
hobble skirt, 204
Hôtel de Crillon, 248
Hôtel du Dauphin, 163, 164, 178, 194
Hôtel Meurice, 137–38, 141, 147
Howells, William Dean, 12, 20
Hudson, Henry, 241
Hudson River, 244–45
Huffaker, Edward, 59–60, 62, 63, 77
Huffman, Torrence, 113, 127
Huffman Prairie, 112, 126, 133, 197, 217, 252–53, 261
Amos Root at, 117–22
first flights at, 113–15
interurban trolley line to, 112
human flight, see flight, controlled
Hunaudières horse racetrack, 161, 166, 168, 177, 182
hydroplane, 258
Illustration, L’, 160, 174–75
“Il Vole” (“He Flies”), 176
Indianapolis Chain Company, 90
Ingersoll, Robert, 17–18
“In the Good Old Summer Time,” 85
Invalides, Les, 139
Issy-les-Moulineaux, 152
Jemappes, 149
Johns Hopkins University, 69
John the Baptist (Leonardo da Vinci), 140
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (German liner), 211
Kansas City Bridge, 56
Kansas City Star, 258
Katharine Wright Park, 261
Kayler, Carrie, see Grumbach, Carrie Kayler
Keiter, Millard, 72–74, 75
Kill Devil Hills, 55, 58, 76, 78, 80, 155, 261
hangar at, 60
Kill Devil Hills Life-Saving Station, 156
kites, 39
Kitty Hawk, N.C., 40–41, 43, 44, 55, 74, 94–95, 102, 111–12, 157–58, 197
arrival of Wilbur at, 43–45
birds at, 51–52
Chanute at, 62–63
diet at, 51, 54
hangar built at, 58, 60
isolation of, 46
mosquitoes at, 58–59, 95
1908 test flights at, 155–59
Orville’s arrival in, 48–49
photographs of, 65
poverty of, 46–47
size of, 45–46
start of experiments at, 49–50
storm damage at, 95–96
winds at, 40–41, 49, 51, 53
Wright brothers in second expedition to, 58–63
Wright brothers in third expedition to, 74–81
Wright camp at, 50–51, 58, 60, 76, 155–56
Wright Memorial at, 261
“Kodak” box camera, 35
Kronprinzessin Cecilie (German liner), 224
Kumler, Dan, 116
Lahm, Frank, 185, 238
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 33, 35, 80, 92, 93–94, 96–97, 99–101, 108, 115, 123, 240, 259
Langley Medal, 249
Lefebvre, Eugène, 249
Le Mans, 160–62, 167–68, 169–78, 188–89, 193, 203–4, 210, 222, 224, 240
demonstration flights at, 169–76
Wilbur’s crash at, 175–76
Wright monument at, 261
Leonardo da Vinci, 140
Life, 38
Life-Saving Service, 43
Life-Saving Station, 102, 103, 156
lift, 38, 39, 52, 61, 69–70, 125
Lilienthal, Otto, 28–29, 33, 35, 37, 38, 42, 56, 61, 67, 68, 147
Lincoln, Abraham, 12
Lindbergh, Charles, 260
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 110–11
London, 224
London Daily Mail, 149, 157, 166–67, 171, 172, 173, 174, 214, 215
London Daily Mirror, 213
Louvre, 140–41, 148
Lucas-Girardville, Paul N., 217
Lusitania, 241, 243
McClure’s Magazine, 29, 69
Machine No. 3, 74, 75–81
McKinley, William, assassination of, 66
Manly, Charles, 93, 96–97, 99–101
Marconi, Guglielmo, 242
Marey, Etienne-Jules, 29–30
Margherita, Queen of Italy, 205
Matin, Le, 171, 172
Maxim, Hiram, 33, 69
Melville, George, 70
Meredith, Perry, 136
Michelin, André, 212
Michelin Cup, 210, 212
Millville, Ind., 11
Mitchell, Tom, 228
Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci), 140
Moore, Johnny, 103–4
Moore, Thomas, 188
Morgan, J. P., 223
mosquitoes, 58–59, 95
Motor Car Journal, 163
Mouillard, Louis Pierre, 36–37, 51–52
Mount Rushmore, 185
Myerbeer Hotel, 212
“Mythical Whitehead Flight, The” (O. Wright), 260
Nags Head, N.C., 43
Napoleon Bonaparte, 139
National Cash Register Company, 12–13, 230
Nevin, Robert, 122–23
Newcomb, Simon, 69, 70
Newton, Byron, 157, 158
New York, N.Y., 139
Wilbur’s flights in, 241–47
New York (state), 86
New York American Weekly, 157
New York Evening Sun, 243–44
New York Herald, 157, 176, 185–86
New York Sun, 240
New York Times, 93, 110, 157, 182, 189, 215, 221–22, 233, 238, 252
New York World, 157, 208–9, 214
North American Review, 70
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Lord, 214, 218
Notre Dame, 139–40
No. XI, 237
Oakwood, Ohio, 256
Oberlin College, 9, 22, 93, 257
Ohio, 12
Wright brothers in return to, 63
Old Constitution Church, 72–74
On Soaring Flight (Huffaker), 59
Otis Company, 35
Outer Banks, N.C., 43
Panama Canal, 86
Pan-American Exposition, 66
Panthéon, 139
Paris, 137–53, 159–60, 208–9, 210, 222, 247
de Lambert’s flight over, 247–48
Paris Herald, 132, 141, 151, 157, 158, 171, 194, 204, 213, 215
Park Avenue Hotel, 242
Patent Office, U.S., 34, 35
patents, 133, 147
Wright brothers’ issues with, 249–50, 252, 255
Patrie, La, 143
Pau, 209, 212–17, 218, 222, 224
Pénaud, Alphonse, 32, 151
Perry, Israel, 44, 45
Pettigrew, J. Bell, 30
Peyrey, François, 161–62, 175
Philadelphia (steamer), 147
Philadelphia Inquirer, 86
photography, 29
pitch, 38, 44, 102, 136
Place Vendôme, Egyptian obelisk in, 139
Poiret, Paul, 204
Pont-Long, 213, 214, 217, 219
Potomac River, 33, 93, 99, 182
Potsdam, Germany, 244
propellers, 88–90, 92
Pulitzer, Joseph, 214
Quantico, Va., 93
ragtime, 85
Rathbun, Richard, 32
Régnier, Henri, 132
Reichel, Franz, 174
Reims, 222, 238, 239, 240–41
Religious Telescope, The, 11
Rhinow Mountains, 28
Richmond, Ind., 11
Ritz Hotel, 224
Roanoke Island, 157
Roebling wire, 90
roll, 38, 44, 46, 136
Rome, 222–23
Roosevelt, Theodore, 66, 86, 110, 122, 189, 192
Root, Amos Ives, 109, 117–21
rudder, 79, 90
Ruhl, Arthur, 157–58
Ruse, Cord, 31
St. Clair (bicycle), 25
St. Cloud, 141, 146
Saint Dorothy, 18
Salley, D. Bruce, 157
San Francisco Chronicle, 34
Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 132, 133–34, 152, 168, 206, 240
Scientific American, 67, 121–22, 133, 246–47
Selfridge, Thomas, 190–92, 193, 194, 198, 199
death of, 192
Senate, U.S., 234
sewing machines, 35, 36
Signal Corps Aeronautical Board, 190, 197
Silliman, Harriet, 38
Simms Station, 112, 115
Singer, Isaac Merritt, 35
Singer Building, 245
Smithsonian Institution, 32–33, 36, 80, 93, 99, 101, 236, 249, 259–60
Annual Report of, 67
Wilbur’s letter to, 27, 32, 36
soaring, 91–92
“Some Aeronautical Experiments” (W. Wright speech), 67–68
Spitler, Levi, 27
Spratt, George Alexander, 60, 61, 63, 77, 78, 79, 80, 98
Squier, George, 183, 192
Statue of Liberty, 243–44
Steele High School, 9, 196
Taft, Charlie, 234
Taft, William Howard, 221, 229–30
Wrights’ letter to, 123
Tate, Addie, 46, 47, 56, 58
Tate, Dan, 60, 95, 98, 156
Tate, Tommy, 54
Tate, William J., 41, 45–46, 48, 50, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 81, 156
Taylor, Charles, 57–58, 70, 71, 74, 89, 93, 94, 97, 98, 111, 112, 113, 116, 119, 124, 144, 149, 151, 153, 182, 184, 191, 192, 198, 201, 229, 234, 236, 240, 241, 244, 246
engine built by, 86–88
and Katharine Wright, 75
Technical World, 157
Tempelhof Field, 241
Times-Herald (Waco, Texas), 221
Tissandier, Paul, 217, 239
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 203
Tour d’Argent, 148
Trowbridge, J. T., 34–35
Tunison, Frank, 109
turkey vultures (buzzards), 51–52
typhoid fever, 27–28, 176, 256
United Brethren Church in Christ, 10–11, 20, 72
United Press, 215
U.S. Air Services, 260
Van Cleve (bicycle), 25
Van Dyck, Anthony, 140
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 223–24
Victoria, Queen of England, 220
Virginian-Pilot, 110, 156
Voisin, Charles, 152
Voisin, Gabriel, 152
Voisin Frères, 152
vultures, 37
Walcott, Charles D., 259
War Department, U.S., 93, 111, 123, 153, 238
War Office, British, 124
Washington, D.C., 178, 181–82
ceremony for Wright brothers in, 229–30
Katharine’s trip to, 195–97, 198–200
Washington Herald, 234, 235, 241
Washington Post, 34, 100, 110, 141, 182, 191, 203, 235
water poisoning, 27
Webbert, Charles, 127, 133
Wells, H. G., 186
Wenham, Francis Herbert, 69
Werthner, William, 112, 114
Western Society of Engineers, 66–68, 91–92
Western University of Pennsylvania, 33
West Side News, 18–20
Wharton, Edith, 132, 248
White, Henry, 141, 195
Whitehead, Gustave, 260
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 43
wind, 40–41, 49, 51, 53
“Winds of Fate” (Wilcox), 43
wind tunnel, 69–70, 81
wings, 92
wing warping, 39, 240, 249, 250
system of, 62–63, 90
women’s rights, 11
Woodland Cemetery, 257
World War I, 260
World War II, 260–61
Wright, Catherine (grandmother), 10
Wright, Dan (grandfather), 10
Wright, Horace, 9
Wright, Ivonette, 9, 25
Wright, Katharine, 6, 8, 9, 14, 21, 22, 23, 27, 38, 40, 42, 45, 49, 50, 54–55, 57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 74–75, 86, 89, 93, 107, 109, 113, 127, 128, 132, 136, 148, 151, 152, 159, 176, 181, 182, 186–88, 192–93, 203, 211, 219, 229, 236, 239, 251, 256, 257–58, 259
and Charlie Taylor, 75
compensation accumulated by, 224
Dayton return of, 227–29
death of, 258
and Edward VII, 220
European tour of, 209–25
first flight of, 217–18
French lessons taken by, 214–15
Great Homecoming and, 232
marriage of, 258
nickname of, 9
Orville’s letters to, 76
in Paris, 222, 247, 248
at Pau, 212–16
personality of, 9
public recognition of, 216
reading of, 17
in Rome, 222–23
train crash and, 212
Washington trip of, 195–97, 198–200
and Wilbur’s Paris trip, 144–46
Wright, Leontine, 9
Wright, Lorin, 9–10, 15, 23, 25, 78, 79, 80, 107, 113, 127, 176, 200, 227, 228, 259
as press agent, 109
Wright, Milton (father), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10–11, 13, 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30, 75, 88, 92–93, 107, 113, 114, 127, 128–29, 132, 139, 148, 188, 192, 193, 195, 198, 201, 210, 211, 218–19, 228, 229, 235, 236, 251, 252, 256, 257
advice of, 13–14
birth of, 10
church troubles of, 72–74
death of, 257
diary of, 227
flight by, 253
genealogy as interest of, 17
Great Homecoming speech of, 232
letters by, 13–14, 18
as lover of books, 17–18
on Root, 121
traveling of, 11, 13
Wilbur as favorite child of, 14
worrying as habit of, 27
Wright, Milton (nephew), 9, 113, 176, 181
Wright, Netta, 9, 227
Wright, Orville, 11, 16, 18, 20, 25, 26, 30, 35, 40, 51, 53, 61, 65, 74, 86, 89, 95–96, 97, 102, 110, 112, 162–63, 190–91, 209, 219, 220, 240, 256, 257–58
aeronautics studied by, 32–33, 38
Archdeacon’s scorn of, 168
in Berlin, 241
bicycle company of, see Wright Cycle Company
bicycling of, 21–22
on Blériot’s Channel flight, 238
in building of first aircraft, 39
compensation accumulated by, 224
crashes of, 78, 115, 119, 191–92, 193–95, 197
cross-country speed trial of, 238
Dayton return of, 227–29
death of, 261–62
diary records of, 77, 85, 97
endurance record set by, 238
European trip of, 225
first glider built by, 42, 44, 49–50
Flint meeting of, 134
Flyer II crash of, 115, 119
in Flyer III, 125–27
Flyer of, see Flyer
flying resumed by, 229
at Fort Myer, 234–39
Fort Myer crash of, 191–92, 193–95
Fort Myer test flights by, 182–86, 189, 190–91
glider-kite built by, 37–38
Great Homecoming and, 230–33
height record set by, 244
home rebuilt by, 21, 23
honorary degrees of, 261
hospital stay of, 195–96, 198–200
Huffman Prairie flights of, 252–53
initial return to Dayton of, 56–57
injuries of, 192, 195–96, 211
as inseparable from brother, 6–7
and Katharine’s marriage, 258
at Kitty Hawk, 157–59
Kitty Hawk arrival of, 48–49
Legion of Honor awarded to, 211
letters to Katharine by, 76