"For 30 years Orville Wright's place of business was the plain brick building (here) on North Broadway. Visiting reporters found it quite ordinary. There was a reception area for Miss Beck (his secretary); an inner office with Orville's desk, file…
The Wright brothers were the first experimenters to understand that a propeller for a flying machine had to work differently from a ship's screws. The first Wright Flyer used 8-foot-long wooden propellers that the brothers hand-carved from spruce.…