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True Story From PRINTING PRESS TO AIRPLANE


True Story
From PRINTING PRESS TO AIRPLANE

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As we know, during British rule in India, no one had right to do those things by which India seemed to be promising...In those horrifying days, very large crowd was gathered, which included Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III near the Mumbai’s Chowpatty beach in 1895 to watch Talpade's airplane. After the successful flight of unmanned airplane some British officers came to meet talpade and they convinced him to handover all the relevant documents, drawings and working model of the airplane...they told him that they will took all these to england and show ur work to the whole world...and from there talpade’s whole work first went to England and then to America. Now wright brothers (Wilbur & Orville) came into the picture, before they invented airplane (as they don't) they had small printing and bicycle repair shop. The Wright brothers knew absolutely nothing about flying. During the winter of 1885-1886, Wilbur was hit in the face with a hockey stick. Wilbur remained homebound for four years, possibly suffering as much from depression as from his vaguely-defined heart disorder. Wilbur was the writer. In 1888, with Wilbur’s assistance, Orville designed and built a larger, more professional press so he could accept bigger jobs. It marked the first time their historic moniker, “the Wright brothers,” appeared in print. Over the years, they worked on several publications and short-lived local newspapers, including:
• The Midget (a small school newspaper)
• Church pamphlets
• West Side News (later The Evening Item)
• Bicycle parts catalogs
• The Dayton Tattler
The Wrights maintained their printing business until 1899.

After that they started doing bicycle repair and manufacture. The brothers quickly expanded their enterprise from rental and repair to a sales shop carrying more than a dozen brands. During their peak production years of 1896 to 1900, Wilbur and Orville built about 300 bicycles and earned $2,000 to 3,000 per year. Their top-of-the-line model, the Van Cleve sold for $65. The less expensive St. Claire sold for $42.50. In 1892 the brothers formed the Wright Cycle Company and for the next ten years they designed, built, and sold bicycles.

And in 1903 they made their first powered airplane.

There are so many loose threads in their “printing press to bicycle repair shop to airplane” story.

How was it possible for them to work on the aerodynamic lift equation, as all we know they never had engineering background and orville did not passed his high school?
How was it possible for them to work on the airplane design during their peak bicycle production years?
They had got everything right from their business then why they had sold out their shop and house to Henry Ford?
From where the French aviation researcher, Octave Chanute collected all the relevant data?
How they calculated the power for an engine to produce required thrust?
And in the last, the dates which are mentioned in the various books and articles created lots of confusions.

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6405/Wright-Orville-Wright-Wilbur.html
http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com/2011/04/wright-brothers-flying-high-sticks.html
http://www.amazon.com/Wilbur-Orville-Biography-Brothers-Transportation/dp/0486402975/ref=cm_lmf_tit_19
http://www.wright-house.com/wright-brothers/Wrights.html
http://www.wrightflyer.org/engineering/

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