It was a brisk December morning in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, but adrenaline-pumping hearts likely kept the Wright brothers warm as one watched the other take flight in the first successful aeroplane: the Wright Flyer. Until this fateful day, the world’s view of human flight was limited to hot-air balloons and gliders. However, two American men, brothers from Millville, Indiana, swooped in at the start of the 20th century and opened the world’s eyes to the possibility of flight powered by a heavier-than-air flying machine.
Before human flight piqued their interest, the Wright brothers’ first joint venture was a printing business during the mid-1880s. By 1889, Orville and Wilbur started a local newspaper called , which later became the and closed
