AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Question
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The first flight
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lightbulbs
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telegraphs
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, with Orville at the controls.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wilbur and Orville Wright are best remembered for making the first successful powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. Their story, however, goes much deeper than that. Come see how two self-taught mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, with the help of family and friends, changed our world forever.
Detailed explanation-3: -Orville takes off with Wilbur running beside, December 17, 1903. At 10:35, he released the restraining wire. The flyer moved down the rail as Wilbur steadied the wings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved one of the first flights with a powered, sustained and controlled airplane; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane.