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"For a few years I have already been afflicted with the fact that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity, and I feel that it'll soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. I have already been trying to arrange my affairs in such a way that I can devote my complete time for a couple of months to test in this field." (Wilbur Wright, 1900) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential characters, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up on the lives of America's most significant women and men in enough time it takes to complete a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright are quintessential American experiences. Growing up in America's heartland, the boys lived very regular lives with five other siblings and worked well printing and repair jobs that involved trying out tools and bicycles. But by the end of the 20th hundred years, one of the brothers' passions became an obsession - especially for Wilbur, who later write, "My buddy and I became critically interested in the condition of human air travel in 1899". The Wright Brothers in the beginning underestimated the down sides involved in flying, and they were apparently shocked by the fact that so numerous others were working on dealing with the "problem of human air travel" already. Generations before their own historic plane would finish up in the Country wide Air and Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed through to everything from the works of these contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci.
