21st Century: Query 164 (Wilbur and Orville Wright)
“I
confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for
fifty years.”
In what way was Wright spectacularly incorrect?
Is this typical inventor thinking? Why or why not?
Why might Wilbur Wright come to such an erroneous conclusion?
~ Wilbur Wright was one of two American aviation pioneers/brothers generally credited with
inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful airplane.
They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright
Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
In what way was Wright spectacularly incorrect?
Is this typical inventor thinking? Why or why not?
Why might Wilbur Wright come to such an erroneous conclusion?