How Did Orville Wright Change Society

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Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright’s engineering design knowledge and skills changed society in a plethora of ways. Every day, thousands of people travel on an airplane to communicate with someone, whether it’s family, friends, acquaintances, or even for business. It has also become a lifestyle for some people. This is all because of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Before this happened, this concept was only a dream: to fly like birds. Leonardo da Vinci sketched more than 100 pictures, during the late 1800s, of how a flying aircraft would look like. Early flights were made from balloons and hot air, but people imagined flying like a bird, such as the Icarus and Daedalus story. But for people to do that, engineers must account the friction and wind

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