Wilbur Wright was born on April 16th, 1867 while his younger brother, Orville, was born 4 short years after that on August 19, 1871. (Bio.com) Their dream started when their father, Milton, brought back a toy for his sons. It was a little helicopter toy made out of bamboo. It was modeled after a design by the French aeronautical pioneer, Alphonse Pénaud. That 's when the Wright brothers’ lifelong love for aerospace began. "If birds can glide for long periods of …show more content…
Neither of them graduated high school, yet they changed history and the way we think. All of their inventions and failed experiments has came to be one of the most useful and advanced technology that we have to date. If we did not have airplanes today, the world would be much different. It would take so much longer for products and people to go to other countries. The outcome of many wars might even be different and much more. “The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.” – Bill Gates (Angle of