This collection contains one of Kress' German patents, patent number 8706, for one of his flying machine models; a letter from 1883, in German, signed by Kress; and a description, in English, of the ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright’s “Flying Machine” received a patent May 22, 1906. This is the first of three pages of illustrations that accompany the patent application. Photo: Staff Writer ...

Like Edison and others, the Wright Brothers took advantage of the patent system, and are the ones known for flight in large part because of their patent filed in 1903 for their “Flying Machine ...