First Flight
Part I - Inventing the Future

The Notebooks

This notebook is filled with pages of calculations recorded from the wind tunnel testing in 1901.
Inside Pages (85k)

 The Wright Brothers kept very precise measurements in their notebook. When they were testing in the wind tunnel, they ordered everyone out of the workshop and the experimenter stood perfectly still so that the tests would be controlled.

Notepage from December 1901 (50k)

Notepage from December 1901 (47k)

Notepage from December 1901 (58k)

Notice the French wording on the cover. The interior pages, of course, are filled mostly with the universal language: mathematics.

 Don't judge a book by its cover. This notebook's cover, published in French, opens to reveal page after page of scientific notations.

Wind tunnel test reults (134k)

Wind tunnel data graph (123k)
Wind tunnel data graph (118k)

Now, back to the story as
Part I - Inventing the Future continues...

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