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Wright aircraft engines
No full textSelected pages from Wright Aircraft Engines, including the chapter "Overhaul of Wright Engines: Instructions for Disassembly of Detail Parts, Their Inspection, Repair and Reassembly."
In 1909, the Wright Company was incorporated in the state of New York with Wilbur Wright as president. When Wilbur died in 1912, Orville took over as president of the company. In 1915, Orville bought back the shares of the company from its stockholders and sold the entire company to a new group of investors. In 1929, shortly before Glenn Curtiss died, the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company merged with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation to form the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
- from Wright Aeronautical Company by Judy Rumerman, U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Wright_Aero/Aero8.htmTechnical manual
Curtiss-Wright Corporation Test Pilots
No full textA group of test pilots for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Airplane Division, Columbus, Ohio on the flight line, ca. 1940 - 1945. The Columbus plant was established in 1940 when the Curtiss-Wright Corporation expanded to meet the increased demand for military aircraft during World War II
Learning a word, 19-- [manuscript].
No full textPart of the collection Papers of Judith Wright.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms5781-0-2. Undated typescript of poem titled "Learning a word"
H. G. (Mick) Wright
No full text"NX 47720 Pte. H.G. (Mick) Wright. 2/12 Field Amb. 1941 to 1942 then Jap. P.O.W. on Ambon 1942 until 1945".NX 47720 Private H.G. (Mick) Wright. 2/12 Field Ambulance 1941 to 1942 then Japanese prisoner of war on Ambon 1942 until 1945"
Oral History Interview with Jack Wright
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jack Wright. Wright was born in Ralls County, Missouri on 21 May 1922. After graduating from high school he enrolled at Southwest Texas College in San Marcos. In November 1941he entered into the V-7 Navy College Training Program. Upon being called into active duty, he went to Columbia University in New York. After four months he was graduated as a commissioned officer. During 1943, after attending several gunnery schools he was assigned to the USS Milwaukee (CL-5) as a gunnery officer. He tells of the ship being part of a large convoy which went to Murmansk, Russia. Upon its arrival, the ship was loaned to the Soviet Navy. Wright trained the Russian crew for thirty days before being sent to Scotland. In Scotland he was assigned the job of preparing a US coastal steamer for Operation Overlord. After the invasion, the ship was anchored off Omaha Beach where it served as a headquarters ship. He returned to the United States aboard the HMS Queen Mary in late 1944. In January 1945, he went aboard the USS Antietam (CV-36). The ship was on its way to Wake Island at the time of the Japanese surrender. In December 1945 he was ordered back to the United States and released from active duty
Robert Wright, Oral History Index
No full textThis is an index of an oral history interview with Robert Wright. It was conducted October 17, 2019. The interviewer is Marcia Lair.
This interview focuses on Robert Wright’s memories of growing up in Delta County, Texas.
Robert Wright was born in 1941 to Virginia Dawson and Delbert Wright. He grew up in Cedar Creek, Texas. He began his education in a single room school in Cedar Creek until it consolidated with a school in Cooper, Texas. In 1955 his family moved to Klondike, Texas and in 1959 he graduated from West Delta High School. Wright recalls changes in transportation, the industrialization of farming, and local businesses such as Chandler’s Store and Pollard Grocery Store. His spouse is Sue Wicks Wright.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1075/thumbnail.jp
The Persistence of the R.A. Fisher-Sewall Wright Controversy
No full textThis paper considers recent heated debates led by Jerry A. Coyne and Michael J. Wade on issues stemming from the 1929-1962 R. A. Fisher-Sewall Wright controversy in population genetics. William B. Provine once remarked that the Fisher-Wright controversy is central, fundamental, and very influential. Indeed, it is also persistent. The argumentative structure of the recent (1997-2000) debates is analyzed with the aim of eliminating a logical conflict in them, viz., that the two “sides” in the debates have different aims and that, as such, they are talking past each other. Given a philosophical analysis of the argumentative structure of the debates, suggestions supportive of Wade’s work on the debate are made that are aimed, modestly, at putting the persistent Fisher-Wright controversy on the course to resolution
The doctor's diaries: Thomas Giordani Wright
No full textAudio recording and transcript of Ed Bell and Anne Royle's April 1991 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about the 19th century diaries of Thomas Giordani Wright. The diaries, which were found in Nanaimo, cover the years 1826 to 1829 when Wright was a surgeon's assistant in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Bell reads various excerpts from the diary, and Royle talks about her trip to return the diaries to Newcastle upon Tyne.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
Forgotten People: I Saw Human Shame as a Migrant Worker
No full textDale Wright, a World-Telegram Staff writer, went undercover as a migrant worker in Hightstown, New Jersey, and in Florida. He recorded his observations, interviewed other workers, and took photos of the harsh conditions endured by migrant workers. The pamphlet includes a letter from New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, commending Wright's work
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
No full textStudio, detail of porch capital; The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year Frank Lloyd Wright lived there with his family. Frank Lloyd Wright purchased the property and built the home in 1889 with a $5,000 loan from his employer Louis Sullivan. He was 22 at the time, and newly wed to Catherine Tobin. The Wrights raised six children in the home. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark four years later. The original 1889 structure was quite small. The home was extensively remodeled in 1895, when among other changes the kitchen was enlarged and converted to a dining room, the upstairs nursery was expanded and converted for use as Catherine's dayroom, and the Children's Playroom and a new kitchen were added to the back of the house. A second major addition was made in 1898, when the Studio and Connecting Corridor were built. In the Studio, Frank Lloyd Wright and associated architects like Walter Burley Griffin and sculptor Richard Bock advanced the Prairie School of Architecture and designed many notable structures, including the Robie House, Unity Temple, the Laura Gale home, and the Larkin building. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/13/2008
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