Orville Wright Laboratory Memorial

  • Also Known As: Wright Aeronautical Laboratory

  • Address: 15 N Broadway
  • Vicinity: French Ln
  • Type: Monument
  • Lost Category: Lost Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1912/00/00 Wilbur Wright Owner The Boyd Building is erected as an investment for Wilbur and Orville Wright at 1201-1211 W 3rd Street in Dayton. Also known as the Wright Building, or the Wright Brothers Building, the three-story commercial-residential structure has been lost.
1913/03/27 Bishop Milton Wright Witness Orville's automobile was submerged and injured several hundred dollars. In all he and the family lost one thousand dollars. Then his new building (lost) was injured nearly another thousand. - Milton Wright's diary Great Flood of 1913
1916/10/16 Orville Wright Work A 3-foot wind tunnel will be installed. The measuring instruments, although not yet completely designed will be after the type of instruments we used in our tunnel of 1901-02. Orville Wright to Elisha N Fales Wright Brothers 1916 Wind Tunnel
1916/12/00 Orville Wright Work Orville Wright has an aeronautical laboratory erected on North Broadway in Dayton, and moves his equipment from the former Wright Cycle Shop at 1127 West Third Street. Wright Flyer (plane)
1917/00/00 General Electric Manufacturer Orville Wright buys a 10-HP electric motor from General Electric for use in his laboratory wind tunnel. Wright Brothers 1916 Wind Tunnel
1917/12/00 Orville Wright Work Mr Wright, consulting engineer of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, test the control and guidance system of the Kettering Bug, a guided missile, using the wind tunnel in his laboratory on Broadway. Wright Brothers 1916 Wind Tunnel
1917/12/00 Orville Wright Work By December, Orville Wright is running test and designing the air frame for the Kettering Bug guided missile. Kettering Aerial Torpedo
1924/11/00 Oscar Cesare, a sketch artist with the New York Times, visits Orville Wright. "In the hall to greet you is an autographed portrait of Count Zeppelin. The walls of the office are hung with photographs of early flights of the Wright brothers."
1927/06/22 Charles A Lindbergh Visitor Col Charles Lindbergh meets Orville Wright at Wright Field and pays him a personal call 15 North Broadway (lost) to take a look at the 1903 Wright Flyer. Wright Flyer (plane)
1936/10/27 Henry Ford Visitor Henry Ford meets with Orville Wright at 15 North Broadway (lost) in Dayton, Ohio.
1948/01/24 Orville Wright Life I have a 10-HP General Electric motor that I would like to sell. This motor was purchased in 1917 for use in my laboratory on a wind tunnel. I would estimate it had about 200 hours of running. - letter written by Orville Wright to the General Electric Co Wright Brothers 1916 Wind Tunnel
1948/01/27 Orville Wright Health Orville Wright suffers a heart attack at his laboratory on North Broadway Street and is taken to the hospital in an ambulance. It is the second collapse he suffered in four months.
1976/12/00 By December of 1976, Wright Aeronautical Laboratory has been demolished. In 2003, the reproduction facade is erected at 15 North Broadway.
1979/00/00 Bricks from the Wright Aeronautical Laboratory are used to build a display case for a bronze sculpture "The Coupe Michelin" at the Special Collections and Archives in the Wright State Dunbar Library.

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Particulars for Orville Wright Laboratory Memorial:
Area of Significance Industry
Area of Significance Invention
Object type Monument
Historic Use Monument, Marker
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Research facility




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