Explore landmark American inventions from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the Wright brothers’ airplane and Jonas Salk’s polio ...

Crouch and Jakab detail the lives and achievements of Orville and Wilbur Wright, on the occasion of the centennial of the first manned flight by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, ...

Trace locations historically associated with breakthroughs that have helped define the nation’s 250-year legacy.

Petrópolis, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...

The Wright brothers’ iconic lift off from Kitty Hawk is immortalized on Ohio license plates, in museums, in photos and in documentaries. It’s become a symbol of innovation and Ohio pride. That first ...

Orville was the born engineer, Wilbur the visionary. The brothers' partnership started after a hockey accident seriously injured 18-year-old Wilbur, leaving him in a state of depression for nearly two ...

The Wright brothers may have achieved the first powered flight, but it was the engineers at NASA in Cleveland that made ...

thought to be impossible: controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight. It only lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet but that short trip, changed the world. Their story is told in the new book "The ...

The Wright brothers’ iconic lift off from Kitty Hawk is immortalized on Ohio license plates, in museums, in photos and in documentaries. It’s become a symbol of innovation and Ohio pride. That first ...

Online exhibition celebrating the Wright brothers' invention of the Wright Flyer, the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard.