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A glass of water sitting on top of a table. Glass water sky.

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[Wilbur in glider turning rapidly to the left, Dan Tate running alongside; Big Kill Devil Hill]

[Launching track on Big Hill, and north slope of Kill Devil Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

[Launching track on Big Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and north slope of Kill Devil Hill]

[Launching track on Big Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and north slope of Kill Devil Hill]

[Kill Devil Hill, view from the back side]

[Side view of Wilbur gliding in level flight, moving to right near bottom of Big Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

[Kill Devil Hill, where the first gliding experiments were conducted by the Wright brothers in 1900; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright, accompanied by his brother Lorin, his nephew Horace, and his friend Alexander Ogilvie, of England, arrived for the purpose of conducting gliding experiments with a glider resembling the 1911 powered machine but lacking its motor]

[Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck (named after a shipwreck)]

[A glide with the double-rudder machine moving to the left, north slope of Big Kill Devil Hill]

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Summary

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 52.

Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright.

Reference copy in LOT 11512.

Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

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Date

01/01/1902
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Contributors

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912, photographer
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948, photographer
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Location

Kitty Hawk (N.C.) ,  36.06472, -75.70583
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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