Orville Wright. In Who s Who in America 1908-1909, Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1908, vol. 5, p.
2119.
Continued from 1910 through 1949, in volumes 6 through 25.
Big Men of the Movement: Orville Wright. Aircraft, June 1910, vol. 1, p. 140.
Orville Wright. In The National Cyclopoedia of American Biography, New York: James T. White &
Company, 1910, vol. 14, pp. 56—57, +illus.
Published also in 1917 edition.
Orville Wright. In Les Rois de l air. 1re ann e, Paris:
Georges Berg, [1910], p. 42, port.
Devoted to activities of years 1908 and 1909.
Wright Flies Single Propeller Plane. Aero and Hydro, Sept. 27, 1913, vol. 6, p. 483.
Experimental flights at Dayton with Model E machine.
The Reception to Orville Wright. Flying, New York, Jan.
1914, vol. 2, no. 12, pp. 24—25, +illus.
Account of tenth anniversary dinner and reception sponsored by Aero Club of America, December 17, 1913, in New York. Accompanied by photograph of the first meeting of Orville and Thomas A. Edison.
Dunham, Samuel R. Orville Wright. In Webb, Mary Griffin, and Webb, Edna Lenore, Famous Living Americans, Greencastle, Ind.: Charles Webb &
Company, 1915, pp. 570—580, port.
Accompanying portrait is of Glenn H. Curtiss and not Orville Wright.
Testimonial to Orville Wright. Technology Review, July 1916, vol. 18, pp. 566—568.
Account of dinner given by Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Engineers Club, Boston, June 12, 1916. Published also with two illustrations, one of the Wright 1903 aeroplane exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Aerial Age, July 3, 1916, vol. 3, pp. 475, 488.
Orville Wright. Proposed for Nobel Prize. Aerial Age, Aug. 28, 1916, vol. 3, p. 718.
Favorable editorial comment on suggestion that a petition be drawn up endorsing Orville Wright as a candidate for the Nobel physics prize.
Biographical References
Orville Wright Is Flying Again. Aviation, Nov. 1, 1916, vol. 1, p. 233.
Announces that Orville has resumed daily flying.
Orville Wright. In The New International Encyclopoedia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916, vol. 23, p. 822, port.
Continued in 1917 and 1930 editions.
The Work of Orville Wright. Aerial Age, Oct. 15, 1917, vol. 6, p. 195, +illus.
Quotes Orville Wright s views on uses of the aero-plane in war.
Orville Wright. Dinner and Ovation. Automotive Industries, June 20, 1918, vol. 38, pp. 1165—1166, port.
Report on dinner held at Triangle Park, Dayton, June 17, 1918, in connection with meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Orville Wright Dinner. Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, July 1918, vol. 3, pp. 8—14, +illus.
Lengthy account of dinner with abstracts of addresses by Colonels Deeds and Vincent, Lieutenant Miozzi, Messrs Coffin, Stratton, Diffin, and Manly.
The Orville Wright Banquet. Aviation, July 1, 1918, vol.
4, pp. 765—771, +illus.
Another extensive account of June 17 testimonial dinner.
Schmidt, J. R. Visiting Orville Wright. The Guide to Nature, Aug. 1918, vol. 9, pp. 68—69, +illus.
Reprinted from Every Week, with editorial.
Orville Wright. In Who s Who 1921, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1921, p. 2911.
Biography continued in later editions, 1922-1948.
Listed in Who Was Who, 1941-1950, London: Adam and Charles Black, 1952, pp. 1267—1268.
Who s Who in American Aeronautics: Orville Wright.
Aviation, Mar. 21, 1921, vol. 10, p. 365.
Who s Who in Aeronautics: Orville Wright. Aerial Age Weekly, Mar. 28, 1921, vol. 13, p. 61, port.
Dr. Orville Wright. In American Men of Science, 3rd ed., Garrison, New York: Science Press, 1921, p. 672.
Also included in 4th-7th editions, 1927, 1933, 1938, 1944.
Orville Wright. In Who s Who in American Aeronautics, New York: Gardner, Moffat Co., 1922, p. 10, port.
Also included in 2nd edition, 1925, pp. 118—119 and 3rd edition, 1928, p. 130.
[Wright, Katharine.] Orville Wright. In The John Fritz Medal, New York: John Fritz Medal Board of Award, [1922] pp. 111—116, +illus.
One of a series of biographical notices on the John Fritz medalists. Presumptive authorship of this article is established by the correspondence between Orville Wright and the secretary of the John Fritz Medal Fund, May 12 and June 4, 1921.
Orville Wright Succeeds Col. F. P. Lahm as Chairman, N.A.A. Contest Committee. National Aeronautic Association Review, Aug. 1, 1924, vol. 2, no. 8, p. 1, port.
Cesare, Oscar. With Orville Wright in His Workshop.
New York Times Magazine, Feb. 1, 1925, p. 8, +illus.
Orville Wright and His Brother Built the First Successful Aeroplane. National Magazine, Jan. 1926, vol. 54, p.
242.
First Man to Fly Works On. New York Times Magazine, July 10, 1927, pp. 1—2, +illus.
Also published with title, The First Man to Fly, in U.S. Air Services, Sept. 1927, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 22—25.
Orville Wright. In Who s Who in Aviation, London:
Airways Publications, Limited, 1928, pp. 124—125.
Lent, L. B. Orville Wright the Flight Bringer; a Picture of a Quiet Man After Twenty-Five Years of Fame.
Liberty, Dec. 22, 1928, vol. 5, no. 51, pp. 16—18, 20, +illus.
Life Stories of Famous Living Inventors. Chapter 101 Orville Wright. Patent News, May 1929, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2, 4.
Orville Wright. In Encyclopoedia Britannica, New York:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1929, vol. 3, p. 808.
Continued in later editions.
Gage, Nevin I. Exchange Honors Orville Wright. The Exchangeite, Mar. 1930, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1, 28—29, +illus.
Hodgins, Eric. Profiles; Heavier than Air. Orville Wright.
New Yorker, Dec. 13, 1930, vol. 6, pp. 29—32, +illus.
Henderson, Archibald. Orville Wright. In his Contemporary Immortals, New York, London: D.
Appleton, 1930, pp. 134—148, port.
Biographical References
Rutledge, Paul. Glorious Pioneers of Aviation. Our Hobbies, Feb.-Mar. 1931, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 12—13.
Orville Wright s 60th Birthday Celebration. [New York:
Vacuum Oil Company, 1931.] [10 pp.]
Collection of congratulatory messages broadcast August 19, 1931.
Orville Wright. In Blue Book of Aviation, Los Angeles:
Hoagland Company, 1932, p. 231, port.
Orville Wright. In the Daniel Guggenheim Medal Fund, Inc., The Daniel Guggenheim Medal for Achievement in Aeronautics. Biographies New York: 1932, pp. 2—9.
Reprinted in revised 1936 edition and brought up to date in 1953 edition titled Pioneers in Aeronautics;
Recipients of the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, 1929-1932, pp. 1—7. One of a series of sketches of the Daniel Guggenheim medalists. Correspondence between Orville Wright and the secretary of the Daniel Guggenheim Medal Fund in 1932 establishes Orville Wright as the author.
Orville Wright. In The National Encyclopoedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1932, vol. 10, p. 526.
Published also in later editions, 1934-1946; revised 1947-1949.
New Member. Time, May 11, 1936, vol. 27, no. 19, p. 44.
Comment on election of Orville Wright as a mem-ber of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prophet of the New World. National Aeronautics, Dec.
1937, vol. 15, no. 12, p. 7, port.
Cesare, Oscar. Orville Wright Looks Back to Aviation s Birthday. New York Times Magazine, Dec. 11, 1938, pp.
6—7, 23.
[Findley, Earl. N.] Orville Wright Goes Again to Kitty Hawk. U.S. Air Services, May 1939, vol. 24, no. 5, pp.
12—15, 40, +illus.
Account of Orville Wright s automobile trip from Dayton to Kitty Hawk in April 1939.
Ellis, Carlyle. Flying as It Was The Birth of American DH s. Sportsman Pilot, Oct. 15, 1939, vol. 22, no. 4, pp.
16—17, 30, +illus.
Includes interview with Orville Wright and account of his flight at Dayton in 1918 with an early Wright aeroplane.
[Findley, Earl N.] Orville Wright Visits Washington.
U.S. Air Services, Nov. 1941, vol. 26, no. 11, p. 11.
Visit of October 23, 1941.
Ingells, Douglas J. Orville Wright Today. Air Trails, June 1942, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 42, 44, +illus.
[Findley, Earl N.] The Orville Wright Suite. U.S. Air Services, Nov. 1942, vol. 27, no. 11, p. 44.
Reference to three-room suite in the Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D.C., where Orville Wright usually stayed when visiting the National Capital.
Cuneo, John R. Orville Wright Reminds a German General of a Circus. In his Winged Mars, Harrisburg, Pa.: Military Service Publishing Company, 1942, pp.
79—87, +illus.
Origins of military aviation in Germany with quo-tation from the diary of Lieutenant General Walter von Eberhardt who witnessed flights of Orville Wright at Tempelhof Field, Berlin, in 1909.
Orville Wright. In Who s Who in Aviation 1942-43, Chicago & New York: Ziff—Davis Publishing Company, 1942, p. 477.
Orville Wright. Studies Gliders. Aviation News, Aug. 30, 1943, vol. 1, no. 5, p. 9.
Report on a device to aid towed gliders being devel-oped by Orville Wright.
[Findley, Earl N.] On the Eve of the 40th Anniversary.
U.S. Air Services, Nov. 1943, vol. 28, no. 11, p. 10.
Editor s comments on Orville Wright s visit to Washington, October 21, 1943.
Wright Honor Guest at Anniversary Fete. Aviation News, Nov. 22, 1943, vol. 1, no. 17, p. 15.
Announcement of fortieth anniversary dinner to be held in Washington, December 17.
[Findley, Earl N.] Orville Wright Without an Equal in Several Different Fields. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 9—10.
Author s reminiscences of Orville Wright.
Loening, Grover. First Flyer in More Ways than One.
U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28, no. 12, p. 20.
Early manager of the Wright Company comments on Orville Wright s skill as a pilot.
Honoring Mr. Orville Wright on the Fortieth Anniversary of the First Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 17 December 1903.
[Washington, D.C.: 1943], 8 pp.
Official dinner program issued on the occasion of the dinner honoring Orville and attended by him, December 17, 1943, in Washington. Includes Contributions of Wilbur and Orville Wright to Biographical References
Aeronautical Science, by George W. Lewis, pp. 6—7.
Brewer, Griffith. The Wright Trilogy. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Apr. 1944, vol. 40, pp.
92—94.
Letter to the editor, March 15, commenting on Fred C. Kelly s interview with Orville Wright as reported in New York Herald Tribune, November 12, 1943.
Orville Wright Flies Constellation. Aviation News, May 1, 1944, vol. 1, no. 40, p. 15.
Report on 50-minute flight at Wright Field, Dayton.
Orville Wright Honored. Aeronautical Engineering Review, June 1944, vol. 3, no. 6, p. 203.
Announces his election to an honorary life mem-bership in the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc.
Ingells, Douglas J. and Lawrence Lader. Orville Wright:
First to Fly. Coronet. Aug. 1946, vol. 20, no. 4, pp.
120—127.
Orville Wright. Current Biography, Oct. 1946, vol. 7, pp. 54—57.
Revised Current Biography 1946, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1947, pp. 662—665, port.
[Findley, Earl N.] Orville Wright. U.S. Air Services, Feb.
1948, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 5—8, port.
Obituary article by a personal friend of forty years standing.
Orville Wright, Co-Inventor of the Airplane, Dies at Dayton, 44 Years After First Flight. National Aeronautics, Feb. 1948, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 3—4.
The Late Orville Wright. Extension of Remarks of Hon.
Chester E. Merroa. Congressional Record, Feb. 4, 1948, vol. 94, appendix p. A678.
Reprints editorial from New Hampshire Morning Union, February 2, 1948.
Grey, C. G. [signed C. G. G.]. The First to Fly.
Aeroplane, Feb. 6, 1948, vol. 74, p. 148, +illus.
Obituary note.
Obituary. Orville Wright. Engineer, Feb. 6, 1948, vol.
185, pp. 139—140, port.
Orville Wright. Engineering, Feb. 6, 1948, vol. 165, pp.
133—134.
Begetter of an Age. Time, Feb. 9, 1948, vol. 51, p. 22.
Obituary article.
Died: Orville Wright. Newsweek, Feb. 9, 1948, vol. 31, no. 6, p. 55.
Death of Albert Medalist. Royal Society of Arts Journal, Feb. 13, 1948, vol. 96, p. 185.
Davy, M. J. B. Mr. Orville Wright. Nature, Feb. 21, 1948, vol. 161, pp. 269—270.
In Memoriam. Orville Wright. Aeronautical Engineering Review, Mar. 1948, vol. 7, p. 15, +illus.
On the Death of Orville Wright. Interavia, Mar. 1948, vol. 3, pp. 129—130, +illus.
Orville Wright. Chirp, Mar. 1948, no. 37, pp. 7—8.
Dorman, Geoffrey. Orville Wr i g h t A n Appreciation.
The Light Plane, Apr. 1948, vol. 2, p. 30.
Kelly, Fred C. Orville Wright at Work. Technology Review, Apr. 1948, vol. 50, p. 309.
Brief account of Orville s habits and activities at his Dayton laboratory.
We Knew Orville Wright. Rotarian, Apr. 1948, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 53.
Account of meeting of the Rotarians of Dayton in memory of Orville Wright with a tribute by Frank D.
Slutz.
Obituaries: Orville Wright. Isis, May 1948, vol. 39, p.
69.
Durand, William F. Orville Wright. Mechanical Engineering, July 1948, vol. 70, pp. 581—585.
Horan, Joseph C. Orville Wright Philatelic Memorial.
Stamps, Oct. 23, 1948, vol. 65, pp. 150—160, +illus.
Popular account of the Wrights with note on com-memorative covers flown on the fortieth anniversary of their first flights in 1903 and on Orville s flight aboard a Constellation in 1944.
Durand, William F. Biographical Memoir of Orville Wright, 1871-1948. Presented to the Academy at the Autumn Meeting, 1948. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1948, 3 p.l., pp. 257—273, port.
(Biographical Memoirs, Volume XXV, Eleventh Memoir).
King, Ernest J. Some Remembrances of Orville Wright.
U.S. Air Services, Feb. 1949, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 13—14.
World War II Chief of Naval Operations writes an account of his three visits to Dayton on the December 17 anniversary, 1933, 1934, and 1935.
Biographical References
Abelin, Rudolf. Orville Wright Motorflyningens Fader. Ett r i Luften, 1949, pp. 116—127, +illus.
Obituaries: Orville Wright. In 1949 Britannica Book of the Year. Chicago, Toronto, London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1949, p. 537.
Obituary. Current Biography 1948, New York: H. W.
Wilson Company, 1949, p. 696.
Orville Wright. In The Americana Annual 1949, New York: Americana Corporation, 1949, p. 738.
When Orville Wright Lived at the Cosmos Club. Cosmos Club Bulletin, May 1950, vol. 3, no. 7, p. 2.
Note on Orville s stay at the Club in May 1908.
Orville Wright. In Who Was Who in America, vol. 2, Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1950, p. 595.
Hanuschke, Wilhelm. I Flew with Orville Wright. U.S.
Air Services, Dec. 1952, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 7—9, +illus.
Account of the author s meeting and flight with Orville Wright at Tempelhof Field, Berlin, in 1909.
McFarland, Marvin W. Orville Wright and Friend. U.S.
Air Services, Aug. 1956, vol. 51, pp. 5—7.
An account of the association of Orville Wright and Earl N. Findley, deceased July 11, 1956, with excerpts from their correspondence.
Kelly, Fred C. A Psychic Mystery of Aviation. Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, Aug. 9, 1958, vol. 64, pp.
352—353.
An account of a practical joke played by Orville on his friend Griffith Brewer involving the source of the quotation so easy it seemed, once found, which, yet unfound, most would have thought impossible from Milton s Paradise Lost.
Orville Wright. In Lassalle, Eugene J. Les 100 premiers aviateurs brevet s au monde et la naissance de l avia-tion. [Paris] Nauticaero, [1962], pp. 50—51.
Orville was granted pilot s license no. 14 by L A ro-Club of France in 1909.
Orville Wright. In The Guggenheim Medalists: Architects of the Age of Flight, New York: The Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, 1964, pp. 56—57, port.
Much abridged and rewritten version of biography originally published by the Daniel Guggenheim Medal Fund in 1932, 1936, and 1953.
Renneisen, Bob. Orville Wright s Last Flight, Aerospace Historian, Spring 1968, pp. 29—31.
An account of the flight of the new Lockheed C-69 Constellation at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, Apr. 26, 1944. What made the flight notable was that Orville Wright, surviving co-inventor of the airplane took over the controls for 10 minutes. It was to be his last flight.