Newspaper article describing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers" class="extiw" title="w:Wright Brothers">Wright Brothers</a>' first powered, heavier-than air flight at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Hawk,_North_Carolina" class="extiw" title="w:Kitty Hawk, North Carolina">Kitty Hawk, North Carolina</a>, U.S. (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Advocate_(Newark)" class="extiw" title="w:The Advocate (Newark)">The Newark Daily Advocate</a></i>, December 28, 1903)
<ul><li>Some elements of the article have been resized for presentation. The original article, including two images, occupied a full single column.</li></ul><ul><li>Last paragraphs of article are a bit hard to read in the original image. I think they are:</li></ul><p><span style="color:green" title="green">Wilbur and Orville Wright are expert
mechanics of Dayton, O., and have been
experimenting with flying machines for
the past four years.  They are the sons
of Bishop Wright of the United Breth-
ren church.  In building their flier the
Wright brothers have followed to some
extent the work of Lillienthal, Pilcher
and Octave Chanut, but they have gone
much further than these experts in
using greater surfaces and especially in
changing the position of the operator.
By so arranging their machine that the
operator lies in a horizontal position in-
stead of standing upright the wind re-
sistance is reduced from five square
feet to one, and a full half horsepower
is saved.</span>
</p><p><span style="color:green" title="green">Speaking of his invention, Mr. Or-
ville Wright said that he and his broth-
er, after twenty-four years of hard
work, have succeeded in perfecting a
flying machine. He stated that the
most successful test was made recently
at Kitty hawk.</span>
</p><p><span style="color:green" title="green">Mr. Wright declined to discuss the
details of the construction of his ma-
chine, as he has not as yet completed
his tests, but stated that his flier was
kept afloat in the air by its peculiar
method of construction and also be the
continuous operation of a gasoline mo-
tor which turns a huge propeller. With-
out the use of the motor he stated the
machine would descend as soon as its
momentum was exhausted.</span>
</p>
<dl><dd>References are to:
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont" class="extiw" title="w:Alberto Santos-Dumont">Alberto Santos-Dumont</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrie_(airship)" class="extiw" title="w:Patrie (airship)">Lebaudy brothers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal" class="extiw" title="w:Otto Lilienthal">Otto Lilienthal</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Pilcher" class="extiw" title="w:Percy Pilcher">Percy Pilcher</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Chanute" class="extiw" title="w:Octave Chanute">Octave Chanute</a></li></ul></dd></dl>
<i>The Newark Daily Advocate</i> (newspaper in Newark, Ohio, U.S., 1903)
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