[Letter from Herbert Hoover]
General Correspondence: Hoover, Herbert, 1926, 1932
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress.
[Letter from Smithsonian]
General Correspondence: Smithsonian Institution, 1942-1947, undated
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Manuscript Division,
Library of Congress.
[Ticket, Presentation of the Wright Brothers' Aeroplane of 1903, 17 December 1948]. Subject
File: Smithsonian Institution--Presentation Ceremony--17 December 1948, 1948-1949. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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1932
November 19
Orville attends dedication of Kill Devil Hill National Memorial honoring the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk.
1938
April 16
Wright brothers' home and bicycle shop, moved from Dayton to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, are dedicated as a memorial to the Wrights.
1939
December 1
Wilbur and Orville's brother Lorin Wright dies in Dayton.
1940
July
1903 Wright airplane on exhibit at the Science Museum in London dismantled and packed away for safekeeping during World War II.
August 19
Wilbur and Orville Wright Memorial in Dayton and near Huffman Prairie, is dedicated.
1942
October 24
Smithsonian Institution publishes The 1914 Tests of the Langley "Aerodrome," a brochure that apologizes for and retracts former statements about the precedence of the Langley machine, marking end of the Smithsonian-Wright controversy.
1944
Orville builds cypher machine for automatic selective coding of messages.
1948
January 30
Orville dies of heart attack in Dayton.
November 22
1903 airplane arrives from the Science Museum in London and is delivered to Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Plane is formally presented to Smithsonian in a ceremony on December 17.
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