History Quote by Jon Husted

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

— Bill Engvall

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly…

— Carl Sandburg

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been…

— Neil Armstrong

“One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human race --…

— Thomas Sowell

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air,…

— Lawrence Lessig

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have…

— Boyan Slat

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew…

— Graham Hawkes

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright…

— Buzz Aldrin