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  • Orville & Wilbur Wright, Two brothers who manufactured bicycles in Dayton, Ohio.
  • Brothers began building a glider.
  • They built their own four-cylinder internal combustion engine.
  • First successful flight was on December 17,1903
  • In 1920, government established the first transcontinental airmail service.
  • Took a day and a half for mail to travel between New york and San Francisco. 
  • Flights were suspended at night, mail continued by trains.
  • By 1925, 61 of the 96 planes flying the mail could fly at night.


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    • Developed by William Bullock
    • Made it easier to print on both sides of a continuous roll of paper.
    • Faster production and lower cost made newspaper affordable
    Linotype Machine 1886
    • Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler
    • Enabled printers to reproduce paintings and engravings cheaply and accurately

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