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Title
First
Powered
Flight
Photograph
Subject
Science and Technology
Transportation
Flight
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
Place
Dayton (Ohio)
Montgomery County (Ohio)
Kitty Hawk (North Carolina)
Description
John
T
.
Daniels
, a
member
of the
Kill
Devil
Life
Saving
Station
,
snapped
this
photograph
at
10:35
A.M
. on the
morning
of
December
17
,
1903
. The
Wright
Brothers
did
not
know
if the
picture
had
recorded
their
twelve
second
flight
until
they
returned
home
to
Dayton
,
Ohio
and
developed
the
photograph
. The
5
"
x
7
"
(12.7
x
17.8
cm)
glass
plate
negative
records
the
first
mechanically-powered
flight
in
history
.
Twelve
seconds
after
the
plane
left
the
ground
,
Orville
Wright
found
himself
120
feet
away
from
where
he
took
off
on the
sand
dune
at
Kitty
Hawk
,
North
Carolina
.
After
a
moment
of
celebration
, the
Wright
Brothers
resumed
testing
their
new
machine
.
It
flew
three
more
flights
that
day
, the
longest
going
852
feet
in
59
seconds
. This
photograph
is
part
of
Wright
State
University's
Wright
Brothers
Collection
of
approximately
6000
items
,
including
over
200
technical
books
,
journals
, and
pamphlets
accumulated
by the
Wright
Brothers
,
over
500
items
related
to their
research
,
business
, and
legal
endeavors
,
more
than
1,000
genealogical
items
gathered
by
Bishop
Milton
Wright
and
Orville
Wright
,
nearly
3,600
photographs
, and
over
700
items
representing
awards
and
other
memorabilia
. A
finding
aid
is
available
online
.
Creator
Daniels, John T.
Date of Original
December
17
,
1903
Collection
Wright
Brothers
Collection
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/wright_brothers
(more
information
about
the
Wright
Brothers
Collection)
Source
Audiovisual material
MS 1 Box 16 File 2 Item 6
Submitting Institution
Wright State University
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om112_16-2-6.jpg
Image Height
439
Image Width
600
File Size
215.513 KB
Format
picture
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