The Wright brother’s entrance into aviation history were humble and did not attract a great deal of attention at the time. Quite contrary to the picture most people have of the first flight, the first eyewitness account of the flight was not published until 1905. Even then its first appearance was in an obscure article, Gleanings in Bee Culture. The first publication of significance that would acknowledge the Wrights’ achievement was the Scientific American that confirmed in late 1906, that they had, actually achieved flight. The reason for the delay in recognizing what the Wrights accomplished in 1903 is generally thought to be from the fact that the press at the time treated attempts at a powered flight as being more for humor than anything
