First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
<p>Photograph shows the first powered, controlled, sustained flight.
</p><p>SUMMARY:  Negative shows Orville Wright at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright running alongside to balance the machine, has just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine.
</p><p>MEDIUM:  1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 5 × 7 in.
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Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_T._Daniels" class="extiw" title="w:en:John T. Daniels"><span title="American photographer (1873-1948)">John T. Daniels</span></a>
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1903-12-17
Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppprs-00626 (digital file from original), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppprs/00600/00626a.tif">uncompressed archival TIFF version (232 MiB)</a>, converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with GraphicsMagick 1.1.11.