Inventor

Wilbur Wright

Patents indexed

Year range

1906

Associated with

Years active

1906

Total patents

Most recent

1906

Frequent collaborator

Orville Wright

Domains

aerospacemechanical

Activity by decade

1900s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1906

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How the Wright Brothers Invented Modern Airplane Control

The foundational patent for the first successful powered, heavier-than-air flying machine that could be controlled in flight.

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