WRIGHT ORVILLE and WILBUR Nº 6732 AD 1904 Improvements in

Sale 1908 - Lot 291

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WRIGHT, ORVILLE and WILBUR. Nº 6732 A.D. 1904 . . . Improvements in Aeronautical Machines. Plate. 4 pages. 4to, disbound; 2 dated institutional stamps on first page.<\t>(London, 1904)

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First printing of the basic patent for the Wrights' revolutionary three-axis control system used in their 1902 glider, the first successful airplane. Filed in the United States on 23 March 1903 and in the United Kingdom on 19 March 1904, the patent was granted first in the United Kingdom on 12 May 1904, and in the United States only on 22 May 1906. DSB XIV, 520; Renstrom (1968), page 103.<