The Dream
Myth and Religion
[Elijah
in the flying chariot] in Biblia. Dordrecht: H.
Keuer, 1702. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (1)
Manuscript
of talismans and tattoos from Burma. Nineteenth century.
Steatite chalk on black paper. Asian
Division (2)
Icarus
at merito, cum petat alta, cadit, seventeenth century.
Etching with engraving. Prints
and Photographs Division (5.1)
Petrus Apianus. Inscriptiones
sacrosanctae vetvstatis. Ingolstadt: Petrus Apianus,
1534. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (6)
Winged Figures
" E.D.Palmer's The
Spirit's Flight," 1854-1860. Daguerreotype. Gift of
Henry K. Bush-Brown. Prints
and Photographs Division (7)
Paul Albert Besnar. Souscrivez
pour Hâter la Paix par la Victoire. 3e Emprunt
de la Défense Nationale. Paris : Maquet Gr., 1917. Lithograph. Prints
and Photographs Division (9)
Gramota--put'
k kommunizmu (Literacy--the Path to Communism). USSR,
1920. Photo-mechanical print with halftone color. Prints
and Photographs Division (10)
Marcia Brown. The Flying Carpet. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (11)
[Phaeton
in Chariot] in Dante Alighieri. La Commedia. Venice:
Petrus de Plasis, 1491. Rosenwald Collection, Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (12)
Albrecht Dürer. [Winged
Venus] in Sebastian Brant. Das Narrenschiff. Basel:
Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1494. Woodcut. Rosenwald Collection, Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (13.1)
William Blake. [Winged
Time] in Edward Young. The Complaint, and the Consolation,
or, Night Thoughts. London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797.
Hand-colored engraving. Rosenwald Collection, Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (21)
Early Science
I
Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci Sul Volo degli Uccelli e Varie
Altre Materie. Paris: E. Rouveyre, 1893. Facsimile
folio. General
Collections (22.1)
Louis Guillaume de La Follie. La
philosophe sans pretention. Paris: Clousier, 1775. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (19)
Francesco Lana Terzi. Prodromo:
Overo, Saggio di alcune inventioni nuove premesso all'Arte
maestra. Brescia:
Rizzardi, 1670. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (24)
Exp[é]rience
a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783. Hand-colored
etching, 1783. Tissandier Collection, Prints
and Photographs Division (29)
Ballooning Firsts
Benjamin
Franklin (1706-1790) to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), November
21, 1783. Holograph letter. Page
2 - Page 3 - Page
4 - Page 5 Page
6 - Page 7 - Page
8 - Page 9 Page
10 - Page
11 - Page
12 Tissandier Collection, Manuscript
Division (30)
Premier Voyage Aerien . . . sous la direction
de Mr. Montgolfier . . . , 1783. Hand-colored etching. Prints
and Photographs Division (108)
Expérience
du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin des
Thuileries le 1er décembre 1783. Paris:
Chez Esnauts et Rapilly . . . , 1783. Hand-colored etching. Prints
and Photographs Division (31)
J. A. C. Charles. " Memoire
de M. Charles sur L'aerostatique," ca. 1784. Holograph manuscript.
Tissandier Collection, Manuscript
Division (32)
Balloon
fragment from first fatal balloon flight, June 15, 1785. Album.
Tissandier Collection, Manuscript
Division (34)
Mort
de Pilâtre de Rosier [Rozier] et de Romain. . . . Boulogne,
France: ca. 1785-1820. Stipple engraving. Prints
and Photographs Division (35)
Premier
descent en parachute, 1797. Gouache and watercolor. Prints
and Photographs Division (107)
Mr.
Blanchard . . . est parti de Douvres. . . , 1785. Hand-colored
etching. Prints
and Photographs Division (109)
W. Walton, printer. The
First Carrieage, the "Ariel." London: Ackerman & Co.,
1843. Hand-colored lithograph. Prints
and Photographs Division (110)
Lighter Than Air
Attributed to Albert Tissandier. [Lunar
halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith's long
distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875.] Drawing
on blue paper: ink wash, lead white, and graphite. Tissandier
Collection, Prints
and Photographs Division. (115)
[Collecting
cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783
to 1846.] Paris: Romanet & cie., imp. Edit [between 1890
and 1900]. Prints
and Photographs Division (116)
J. Duruof. Le
tricolore - Page
2 Paris: Imp. E. Hamelin rue Fontaine au roi 59, 1874.
Lithograph. Landauer Collection, Prints
and Photographs Division (117)
Dirigibles and Gliders
" Sir
George Cayley's Aerial Carriage," in Mechanics' Magazine,
April 8, 1843. General
Collections (36)
Aerostat
a Vapeur de M. Giffard (Expérience de 25 septembre 1852).
Lithograph. Giffard Papers, Manuscript
Division (37)
|[Drawing
of dirigibles]. Pencil on paper, ca. 1852. Page
2 - Page 3 - Page
4 Giffard Papers, Manuscript
Division (38)
James Means. The
Problem of Manflight. Boston, Massachusetts: W.B.
Clark & Co., 1894. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (111)
Otto Lilienthal. Der
Vogelflug als Grundlage de Fliegekunst. Munich and
Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1910. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (112a)
Octave Chanute. Photographs of Chanute glider
being flown over dunes on Lake Michigan, 1896. Photo album. Chanute
Papers, Manuscript
Division (39)
The Achievement
Wright Family
S.T. Wiggins, photographer. Orville
Wright, 1881. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (40.1)
Wilbur
Wright, ca. 1880. Copyprint. Courtesy of Special Collections
and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (40.2)
Milton
Wright, ca. 1883 Copyprint. Courtesy of Special Collections
and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (40)
Susan
Koerner Wright, 1876 Copyprint. Courtesy of Special
Collections and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton,
Ohio ( 40.4)
S.T.
Wiggins, Katharine
Wright, 1879 Copyprint. Courtesy of Special Collections
and Archives, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio (40.5)
Wilbur
and Orville on porch in Dayton, 1909. Copyprint.
Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Wright State
University, Dayton, Ohio (40.3)
Orville
Wright to Milton Wright, April 1881. Postcard. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (41)
Front
view of 7 Hawthorn Street with bicycle, Dayton, Ohio,
ca. 1900. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (44)
Orville Wright, publisher, and Wilbur Wright,
editor. The West
Side News, 1889.
Dayton, Ohio. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (45)
Wilbur
Wright working in the bicycle shop, 1897. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (46)
Wilbur
Wright to Milton Wright, September 12, 1894. Page
2 - Page 3 - Page
4 Holograph letter on Wright Cycle Company stationery. Manuscript
Division (47)
Inspiration and Experiments
Vernon. " The
Flying Man: Otto Lilienthal's Flying Machine" in McClure's
Magazine. September 1894. General
Collections (49)
Orville
Wright. Pénaud-style
ornithopter. Drawn from memory, ca. 1929. Carbon copy.
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (51)
W.J.
Tate to Wilbur Wright, August 18, 1900. Page
2 Holograph letter Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (55)
Wilbur
Wright to Milton Wright, September 9, 1900. Holograph letter
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (57)
Wright
kite being flown by tethers, 1900. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (61)
Wrights' 1899 Kite, 1920. Defense
evidence from trial. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (56)
Wilbur
Wright notebook, September-October 1900. Page
2 - Page 3 - Page
4 - Page 5 Page
6 - Page 7 - Page
8 - Page 9 Wright
Papers, Manuscript
Division (58)
Glider
being flown as a kite by Wilbur Wright (left) and Orville Wright
(right), 1901. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (62)
Kitchen
at Kitty Hawk, 1902. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (63.1)
Wilbur
Wright to Octave Chanute, October 6, 1901, Page
2 - Page 3 - Page
4 Page 5 - Page
6 - Page 7 Chanute
Papers, Manuscript
Division (64)
with
enclosed sketches on wallpaper
scraps. Scrap
2 - Scrap 3 Holograph
letter. Chanute Papers, Manuscript
Division (65a,b)
Sheets
with tables of wind tunnel data. Enclosed in a letter from
Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute, January 5, 1902. Manuscript
pages. Chanute Papers, Manuscript
Division (69)
Wright
glider in flight, 1902. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (68)
Wrights in Flight
Wilbur
Wright to Katharine Wright, December 14, 1903. Holograph
letter. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (72)
John T. Daniels. First
flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m., Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, December 17, 1903. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (74)
Orville
piloting the third flight of December 17, 1903, Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (76)
Distant
view of the Wright airplane just after landing. . . . This
flight, the fourth and final of December 17, 1903, was the
longest: 852 feet covered in 59 seconds. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (77)
[Photo
album belonging to Orville Wright]. Page
2 Wright Collection, Prints
and Photographs Division. (113)
" Airship
that Flew in North Carolina, and its Inventors." Chicago
Sunday Tribune, December 20, 1903. Newspaper clipping. Wright
Papers, Manuscript
Division. (80)
Orville
Wright to Octave Chanute, December 28, 1903. Holograph letter. Page
2 - Page 3 Page
4 - Page 5 Chanute
Papers, Manuscript
Division (81)
First Flight
Wilbur
Wright to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900. Holograph letter. Page
2 - Page 3 Page
4 - Page 5 Chanute
Papers, Manuscript
Division (52)
Orville
Wright to Milton Wright, December 17, 1903. Telegram. Wright
Papers, Manuscript
Division (73)
Orville
Wright's diary entry of December 17, 1903. Holograph manuscript.
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (78)
John
T. Daniels. The first flight of December 17, 1903. Photograph
printed by Orville Wright. Manuscript
Division (75)
Fabric
from the wing of the 1903 machine. Muslin. Rare
Book and Special Collections Division (79)
Orville
Wright, 1904 diary. Wright Papers. Manuscript
Division. (92)
Showing the World
Wilbur
and Orville relaxing at Huffman Prairie, 1904. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (82)
Wilbur's
diary showing first circular flight, 1904. Holograph manuscript.
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (83)
Orville
flying . . . Huffman Prairie, 1905. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (85)
Patent
for Wright Flying Machine. May 22, 1906. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (86)
J.C.
Bates, U.S. War Department, to Wilbur and Orville Wright, October
16, 1905 Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (88)
K.
Tachibana, War Department of Japan, to Wright Cycle Company,
July 18, 1906 Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (90)
U.S.
Signal Corps. War Department
Purchase Order, February 10, 1908 Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (93)
L'Aviation
en 1908. Mr. O. Berg with Mr. Wilbur Wright. Postcard.
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (91a)
Admission
tickets for demonstration flights by Wilbur Wright at Le Mans,
France, 1908. Reverse
side of ticket Manuscript
Division, Wright Papers (94)
[Wilbur Wright in Europe.] Postcards, ca. 1908-1909.
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (94.1-9)s
Wilbur
Wright flying Wright Model A over an ox-drawn cart in Pau,
France, 1909. Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (95)
First
flight for Katharine Wright, seated in plane with Wilbur; Orville
standing to left, in Pau France, 1909. Photograph.
Mabel Beck Collection, Prints
and Photographs Division (96)
Orville's
crash which killed Selfridge, September 1908. Copyprint.
Courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Wright State
University (99)
Orville
Wright flying a successful flight at Fort Meyer, 1909.
Copyprint. Prints
and Photographs Division (101.1)
Wilbur
Wright to Orville Wright, September 28, 1908. Postcard. Wright
Papers, Manuscript
Division (101)
Homecoming
"A
New Kind of Gull in New York Harbor" in Harper's Weekly,
October 9, 1909. Copyprint. Courtesy of Harpweek LLC (104)
Dayton
Homecoming Celebration Pennant. Felt with printing, 1909.
Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (105)
Poster
from Dayton Homecoming, June 17-18, 1909. Wright Papers, Manuscript
Division (106)
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