Unfortunately the Wright's mother died in 1889 of tuberculosis. This is when eighteen-year-old Orville decided to drop out of high school. He continued to work in the printing business for two summers. He eventually bought the whole business from Ed Sines, who became an employee of Wright Printing.
In "March 1889 Orville began to publish a weekly newspaper, The West Side News," (1). Wilbur then joined his brother in the business, first as a consultant and then as a writer and editor. The brothers then built another press that was "ingenious enough to attract the attention of other professional printers" (1). This business started out as a weekly and was successful enough to become a daily paper. Unfortunately they couldn't hold their success; after just four months they went back to the printing business. Shortly after they tried publishing again, but after three issues they went back to the printing business once again.
"In 1892" (1) the brothers bought safety bikes. These bikes were new with the two wheels of equal size. They joined a bicycle club which they would go "on long country rides, and did a little racing," (1). When their friends started having bicycle troubles they went to the brothers since they grew the reputation of being mechanics from the print shop. This led to them opening up a very successful bicycle shop where they did repairs and sold new bikes and accessories. Some years passes and the brothers realized that they could make better bikes than they were selling. Soon they were hand making bikes for costumer's specifications.
1. The Wright Story. 29 Jan. 2007. Wright Brothers Aeroplane Co. of Dayton, Ohio. http://www.wright-brothers.org/History/Wright%20Story/wright%20story.htm
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4 comments:
Shelly,
While giving the history and information of the early years of the Wright brothers is good...try to put all of that together in summary, just hitting the high points. This way, you can get to their ideas, concepts, inventions, and contributions to aviation. I know it's common knowledge that they were the first to have a "successful" aircraft, but maybe you should start commenting more about that time in their life.
Great backround on the flight bound brothers. More insight to their motivation and enginuity would foreshadow to thier inventing of the airplane. This is a nice prelude to thier greater accomplishments.
I like that you have great backround information, but like aramis said i think you should look more on their motivation and starting on their inventing of the airplane. Very well written and i like how your getting into the deep history where it all started, im just not sure your going to have enough room in the paper to get down to theses facts.
This is a really good start to your research. Starting at the begging obviously makes sense and writing about their early accomplishments to build up to their great lifetime achievement of the first successful flight is a wonderful strategy!
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