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Tonight we'll be reading the early history of the airplane, written by Orville and Wilbur Wright.

This book consists of three short essays about the beginnings of human

flight. The Wright brothers weren't the first to build and fly an aircraft, but they were the first

to invent the ability to control the aircraft's wings and make modern flight possible in 1903.

This is their recounting. Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Though the subject of aerial navigation is generally considered new, it has occupied the minds of men more or less from the earliest ages.

Our personal interest in it dates from our childhood days.

Late in the autumn of 1878,

our father came into the house one evening

with some object partly concealed in his hands.

And before we could see what it was, he tossed it into the air.

Instead of falling to the floor, as we expected,

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