Birth of Aviation October 12, 2012

'The Birth of Aviation' celebrates the first 100 years of powered, heavier-than-air flight and reveals how an American family changed the world. Setting the stage for the famous first flight, the exhibit begins by describing the atmosphere of progress and invention at the turn of the twentieth century. In France the desire to invent a heavier-than-air flying machine caught hold of a small circle of scientists, engineers, and inventors, whose ideas and experiments influenced two brothers named Orville and Wilbur Wright.