The Bishop's Boys (97 page)

Seventh Street School, 57–58

Seward, William Henry, 29

Shakespeare, William, 146

Shonts, Theodore P., 409

Short, Eustace, 389, 410, 435, 451, 488

Short, Oswald, 389, 410, 435, 451, 488

Short Brothers balloon factory, 388–89

Shuey, William J., 85

Silliman, Harriet, 173

Silver Dart
, 400

Simms Station, 278–79, 426, 433

Simplex Automobile Company, 466

Sines, Ed “Jamsie,” 48, 58, 94, 96, 104–5, 107, 109, 111,
112

Sines & Wright, 94

Skeel, Burt, 511

Slipstream
, 505

Smeaton, John, 175–76, 177, 214, 220, 226

Smith, Charles E., 138

Smithsonian Annual Report
, 162, 487

Smithsonian Institution, 180, 329, 390

aeronautics and, 140–42, 152, 153, 154, 160, 161–62, 171, 257, 262, 350, 501

Arts and Industries Building of, 527–29

National Museum of, 445, 492, 520, 526–29

Orville’s feud with, 57, 484–502, 519–21

Wright Flyer (1903) at, 526–29

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
, 520

Snap-Shots of Current Events
, 111, 113

Société Astra, 383, 416, 433, 440

Société Autour du Monde, 383

Society for the Encouragement of Peace, 383

Solirène, Monsieur, 317

“Some Aeronautical Experiments” (Wright), 232

Sonora
, 37

Southard, Fred, 437

Spaatz, Carl, 524

Spanish-American War, 347

spars, 280, 282, 283

Sperry, Elmer, 459

Sperry, Lawrence, 459–60

Spirit of St. Louis
, 502–3, 528

Spitler, Doctor, 108, 157, 449

split flap device, 15, 471–72

Spratt, George Alexander, 76–77, 205–8, 212–13, 219, 225, 236–37, 253, 255, 259, 301, 329, 421–22

sprockets, 259, 261

Squier, George, 347–48, 372, 375, 378, 379, 392

Stack, John, 528–29

Standard Aircraft, 470

Standard S-1 aircraft, 510

“Stardust Twins,” 431

“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 527, 528

State Anti-Secrecy Society, 51

Stauffer, Amos, 285, 298, 299, 308

Steele High School, 121, 122

Steeper, Harold, 525, 526

Steinmetz, Charles, 508

Stephens, Thomas, 31

Stinson, Eddie, 436

Stinson Aircraft, 436

stopwatches, 267, 398, 399

“Story of Experiments in Mechanical Flight,

The” (Langley), 162

Stout, Lansing, 37

streetcars, 46, 158

struts, 173

Sublimity College, 37

submarines, 167, 267, 328

Summit Street house, 66

supersonic flight research program, 529

Surcouf, Edouard, 342, 368

Swann, Leroy, 511

Sweet, George, 398

Syndicat d’Aviation, 322

“Tactical and Strategic Value of Dirigible Balloons and Aerodynamical Machines, The,” 372–73

Taft, William Howard, 292, 304, 331, 390, 391, 392, 398–99, 417, 449, 489, 491

tails:

cruciform, 154, 155, 168, 257, 262

four-bladed, 168–69

two-cell kite as, 322

vertical, 254

see also
elevators; rudders

takeoffs, 281–84, 299

gravity assisted, 255

unassisted, 381

water, 458

see also
launch mechanisms

Talbott, Harold, 468–69

Talbott, Harold, Jr., 468–69

Targe, A. L., 337, 339

Taschenbuch zum praktischen Gebrauch für Flugtechniker und Luftshiffer
(Moedebeck), 219–20, 232

Tate, Dan, 196, 209, 256, 258–59

Tate, Mrs. William, 187–88,
187
, 199, 207

Tate, Tom, 196–97

Tate, William J., 183, 187–88,
187
, 189, 190, 192, 193–94, 195–96, 207, 209, 236, 241, 267, 505

Tatin, Victor, 275, 336

Tattler
, 101

Taylor, Bayard, 37

Taylor, Charles, 203–5, 438–39, 509

European trip of, 339, 341–42

Wrights assisted by, 117, 121, 204–5, 244–45,
245
, 253, 259, 260, 274, 371, 376, 377–78, 407, 412, 426

Wrights recalled by, 117–18, 204, 243, 244, 273, 283

Taylor, David Wilson, 492

Taylor, Henrietta Webbert, 204

Taylor, Lady Jane, 330, 333

telephone, invention of, 138, 350

temperance, 25–26, 29, 30, 41, 51, 67

Ten Dayton Boys, 74,
74
, 117

thermodynamics, 175

three-axis control, 15, 167–70, 322, 383, 422

Tissandier, Paul, 385, 386

Tomlinson, John, 300

Toulmin, Henry A., 276, 277, 300, 418, 448, 497

toys, 56–57, 128, 159, 164, 362, 515

Wright-made, 15, 127, 515–16

transmission systems, 243–44, 256, 260, 261, 267

“Tribute to the Wright Brothers” (Bell), 326

triplanes, 156, 239

Trowbridge, John, 137

Truman, Harry S., 521, 528

tuberculosis, 32, 63, 77

Tunison, Frank, 271, 274

Turpin, J. Clifford, 428, 436

typhoid fever, 27, 71, 124, 157, 187, 208, 448–49

Union Biblical Seminary, 41

United Brethren Printing Establishment, 43, 82, 85, 91–92

United States Rubber, 328

Universal Exposition, 321

U.S. Air Services
, 475, 496, 500

U.S. Bobbin and Shuttle, 328

Van Cleve, John, 22, 113

Van Cleve, Margaret, 22, 113

Van Cleve bicycles, 113, 204

Van Deman, Mrs. Ralph, 408–9

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 409, 410

vanes, 443, 459, 460

Veiru, John W., 137

Verrazano, Giovanni da, 192

Viana, Marquis de, 381

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 387, 388

Victory, John, 524

Ville de Paris
, 342

Vinci, Leonardo da, 56, 152, 419

Vin Fizz
, 439

Vinson, Fred, 528

Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst, Der
(Lilienthal), 142–43

Voisin, Charles, 342–43, 369

Voisin, Gabriel, 319–23, 336, 342–43, 362, 364, 369

Voisin-Delagrange I, 343

Voisin-Farman I, 343–44

Vuia, Trajan, 324

Vuia II, 324

Waddell, T. N., 280

“Wagerechte Lage Während des Gleitfluges, Die” (Wright), 202–3

Walcott, Charles D., 257, 485–88, 490–93

Walker, John Brisbane, 328

Walker, Percy, 302

Wallace, Charles S., 372

Wanamaker, Rodman, 407

war bonds, 478

War Department, U.S., 192–94, 304–5, 309, 310, 311, 314, 331–32, 392, 397, 446

War Ministry, French, 309–10, 311, 322, 333–35. 337–40, 446–47, 460

Warner, Edward, 516–17

War Office, British, 291, 294–95, 304–6, 311–12, 388

Warren, Lindsay, 505, 506, 507

Washington, George, 504, 527

Washington, Martha, 528

Washington
Evening Star
, 374

Washington
Herald
, 499

Washington School, 58

Watson, Thomas, 349, 350

Waubeck Island, 478

Wayside Inn, 507

Weather Bureau, U.S., 220, 329, 524

Weaver, Bishop, 68

Weaver, Henry M., Sr., 308–9, 315, 327

Webbert, Charles, 116, 508

Webbert, Henry, 298, 300

Webster, Noah, 508

Weed, Thurlow, 29

Weiller, Lazare, 349, 354, 362, 381, 383, 388, 405, 433, 440

Weisskopf, Gustav, 498–501, 502

Wells, H. G., 399

Welsh, Art L., 11, 427, 435, 436, 437, 451, 458

Wenham, Francis Herbert, 149, 177, 247

Werthner, William, 94, 279

Westcott, Bob, 264, 266, 268, 355

West Dayton, Ohio, 45–47, 96–99, 107, 298, 452–54, 510

West Dayton
Evening Item
, 97–100, 104, 159

Western College, 31, 60

Western Society of Engineers, 218–19, 253, 281, 416, 417

Western Union, 270, 271

West Side News
, 96–97, 101, 104

Wetmore, Alexander, 524, 526–27, 528

Wheeler, Esther, 57–58

Wheeler, Monroe, 404

Whitehead, Charles, 500

Whitehead, Gustav, 498–501, 502

White Wing
, 353, 360

Whiting, Kenneth, 435

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 307, 339, 340, 406

Willard, Charles, 402

Williams, Alexander, 402

Williams, H. S., 46

Wilson, Maurice, 450

Wilson, Woodrow, 465, 469, 471, 473

windmills, 172–73, 175–76

wind pressure (CP), 180

wind tunnels, 149, 177, 222–28, 224, 230, 231, 234, 235, 237,
238
, 242, 254, 371, 473, 512, 516

wind velocity, 178, 182–83, 189, 196, 197, 203

wings, 114

bat, 260

bird, 172–73, 176

cambered, 176, 179, 180, 197, 210–11, 221–22, 226–27, 280, 295, 318, 320, 497

cathedral arch of, 196

design of, 166, 169, 170, 172–73, 176, 178–80, 196, 210–11, 222–28, 235, 243, 255, 295, 320, 401–2

dihedral angle of, 169, 170, 196, 319, 324, 383

fabric covering of, 183, 187,
187
, 199, 232, 255, 352, 397, 400

folding, 206, 233

helical twist of, 172–73, 198, 200, 201, 299

multiple, 153–54, 168, 239, 262, 276

oscillating, 239, 249

span and surface of, 138, 139, 172, 188, 203, 235, 241, 295, 320

tandem, 139, 153, 155, 322

wing-warping system, 201, 232, 267, 295, 318–20, 324, 338, 353

Wrights’ development of, 198, 200, 213, 214–15, 235–36, 246, 251, 253–54, 255, 383–84. 396, 419–20, 441, 451–52, 462

Winkley, Erastus E., 423, 447

women’s rights, 41, 51, 88, 89, 121, 392

Wood, Robert, 142–45

Woodland Cemetery, 82, 450, 480, 525

World’s Columbian Exposition, 150–52, 184, 248, 371

World War I, 436, 457, 461, 464, 466, 498, 511

aircraft of, 461, 464, 469–70

World War II, 15, 436, 446, 478, 520

Wright, Asahel (great-uncle), 22, 23–24, 105

Wright, Bertha Ellwyn (niece), 71, 128

Wright, Catherine Louise (niece), 69–70, 128

Wright, Catherine Reeder (grandmother), 22–23, 24–25, 27, 35, 38, 39, 40

Wright, Dan (grandfather), 21, 22–23, 27, 28, 39, 40, 79

appearance and personality of, 25–26

Milton on, 25

Wright, Dan (great-grandfather), 21, 22

Wright, George (uncle), 23

Wright, Harvey (uncle), 22, 26, 27

Wright, Helen Margaret (niece), 60, 71, 128

Wright, Herbert (nephew), 71, 128–30

Wright, Horace “Buster” (nephew), 89, 125, 127, 443,
480

Wright, Ida (sister), 47

Wright, Ivonette “Netta” Stokes, 89, 125

Wright, John Quincy, 19

Wright, Kate (aunt), 23

Wright, Katharine (sister), 30, 38, 71, 72, 107,
386, 480, 483

birth of, 48

childhood of, 48–49, 50, 55, 60,
62
, 65, 66, 77, 83, 87

correspondence of, 91, 117, 122–24, 162, 184, 214, 236, 510

death of, 483

education of, 88–89, 91. 92, 94, 104, 116, 119–20, 120, 157, 160, 279, 385, 525

European trips of, 385–90,
386
, 402, 405–6, 409, 451–52

family role of, 87–89, 90, 91–92, 121–25, 157

friends of, 119–20, 120, 123, 173, 379, 408

health of, 123

household responsibilities of, 87–89, 91, 92, 121–22, 123–25, 157, 359, 360

humor of, 103, 120

loneliness of, 122–23, 236

marriage of, 482–83

men as seen by, 119–21, 204, 379

Milton and, 60, 87–89, 90, 91–92, 120, 122, 123, 124–25, 163, 509

nickname of, 50

Orville and, 49, 50, 65, 125, 157, 159, 190–91, 371–72, 377–80, 450–52, 475, 476, 477, 482–83, 488–89

Orville’s break with, 482–83

passenger flight of, 386

personality of, 119–25, 387

public interest in, 387

teaching job of, 91, 121, 122, 377, 426

White House visit of, 391–92

Wilbur and, 14, 48–49, 50, 104–5, 125, 186, 218, 219, 335, 359, 360

Wilbur’s bequest to, 71, 450

Wright, Lorin (brother), 39, 47, 48, 49, 57,
73, 74
, 75, 88, 89

children of, 89, 125–28, 157–58, 443, 476

Dayton life of,
73
, 89, 102

death of, 480

early married life of, 89

education of, 64, 89

family bookkeeping by, 40

financial situation of, 64, 89

jobs of, 64, 66, 89

Kansas frontier life of, 72,
73
, 77, 83, 89

on Wilbur, 118

Wilbur’s bequest to, 71, 450

Wright Brothers and, 109, 188, 239, 270, 271, 273, 378, 391, 395, 443, 444, 476, 483, 489, 515

Wright, Lulu Billheimer, 69–71, 104, 128–30, 164

Wright, Milton (father),
20, 126
, 393

birth of, 23–24, 65

bishopric of, 52, 60–63, 67, 69, 78, 82, 85–86, 215–18

boyhood of, 24–27

church career of, 12, 26, 27–28, 31, 35–38, 39–43, 51–52, 60–64, 67–69, 78–82, 83–86, 103, 215–18

church censure of, 217–18

church struggles of, 12, 41–43, 63, 67–69, 78–82, 119, 302, 402

circuit travel of, 35–38, 39, 40, 52, 54–55, 60, 63, 69, 78, 81, 86, 88, 90, 104, 128, 150–51, 157, 160

correspondence of, 21, 36, 37, 38, 39, 48, 53, 54–55, 87, 88, 90–91, 113, 124, 338

courtship of, 31, 35, 37

death of, 479–80

diaries of, 32, 35, 38, 74–75, 76, 77, 82, 124, 327, 376–77, 448, 449, 450

editorial positions of, 43, 45, 47, 51–52, 63–64, 65, 67, 69

educational beliefs of, 30–31, 56–58, 128

family sense of, 20–21, 31, 86–87, 90–92, 124–25

flood rescue of, 453

genealogical interests of, 21, 32, 480

grandparenting of, 125,
126
, 127, 128, 157–58, 173

illnesses of, 31, 37

income of, 30, 39, 47, 64, 67, 124

marriage of, 20–21, 38, 40

only flight of, 11–12, 19, 428

ordination of, 12, 30, 35

parenting of, 47, 48, 49, 53, 60, 157, 184

personality of, 12–13, 20–21, 20, 26–27, 30–31, 33, 35, 41–42, 60–62, 67, 103, 123, 124