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Sale 2687 - Lot 41

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AVIATION.) The Wright Brothers' first full account of their flights, in the Youngstown Vindicator. 12 pages, 22¼ x 16¾ inches; toning, minimal wear except where disbound. Youngstown, OH, 6 January 1904
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made national news with their 17 December 1903 flights at Kitty Hawk, but reports were based largely on distorted second-hand information. The Wrights issued their first substantial description of the flights in a press release on 5 January 1904. It appeared in a handful of newspapers on 6 January, and then in dozens more over the next week. Here is one of the first printings of this account, in a home-state newspaper, with the eye-catching headline "Flying Machine Problem Solved. Interesting Experiments Made by Two Ohio Men with a Machine of Their Own Creation." See Jakab, "The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright."

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