Jun. 23—A bronze statue of Harry Toulmin has stood eight feet tall for 18 years across Main Street from Springfield's Bushnell Building. But so that everyone who catches the elevator inside will ...

Wright Bicycle Shop. The Wright Cycle Company Building on South Williams Street is one of the locations where the Wrights operated their business during the bicycle craze of the late 19th century ...

Few Americans have been as justly celebrated as Wilbur and Orville Wright, the two Dayton, Ohio, bicycle makers who made the first powered flight on the sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C., in December 1903 ...

The Wright brothers ran their bicycle shop out of this building in the late 1800s, as they began the work that would lead to manned flight. The historic building, at 16 South Williams St. in ...

What the Wright Brothers Can Teach You About Building a Company. ... the 156th anniversary of Wilbur’s birth, there are still lessons modern entrepreneurs can learn from Wilbur and Orville Wright.

A Former Wright Brothers Bicycle Shop Faces Demolition. Officials in Dayton, Ohio, have given permission to raze the building, which they describe as dangerous and at risk of collapsing.

A fire that broke out at a building complex in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday damaged a factory founded by Wilbur and Orville Wright, the brothers who were the first people to successfully fly an airplane.

Wilbur Wright, c.1876, LOC, via Wikimedia ... Building on their bicycle shop roots, the Wright brothers eventually created a chain-and-sprocket transmission linkage for their powered airplane.

Oh, Orville helped. An obsessive tinkerer and gifted mechanic, he was invaluable in building the Wright flyer, and yes, he piloted the first flight on Dec. 17, 1903.

Taylor, a mechanic who worked in the Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop owned by Orville and Wilbur Wright, is credited with building the lightweight engine that powered the craft that took flight at ...

But so that everyone who catches the elevator inside will know the Wright Brothers’ place in aviation lore might have been grounded had Orville not ridden the trolley to the Main Street building ...