Wright Cycle Shop at Greenfield Village

The Wright Cycle Company (formerly Wright Cycle Exchange) owned and operated five bicycle shops where Orville and Wilbur Wright designed and built Van Cleve and St. Claire bicycles from 1892 to 1909. They invented self-oiling hubs and initiated the practice of machining the crankarm and pedal on the left side of the bike with left-hand threads to prevent the pedal from coming unscrewed while cycling. They also repaired bicycles and ran a printing shop on the second-floor in their brick building at 22 S. Williams St., Dayton, Ohio, which remains preserved as a museum. Wright Cycle Shop, now at Greenfield Village, photo by rmhermen File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Wright Cycle Shop, now at Greenfield Village, photo by rmhermen File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948), the younger of the Wright brothers, seen as one of the fathers of heavier-than-air flight. ... Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912), the elder of the Wright brothers, seen as one of the fathers of heavier-than-air flight. ... This mountain bicycle features oversized tires, a sturdy frame, front shock absorbers, and handlebars oriented perpendicular to the bikes axis Bicycle may also refer to Bicycle Playing Cards. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A bicycle wheel is a wheel designed for a bicycle. ... A press-fit crankarm with pedal A crankarm, also know as crank arm and crank-arm, is the lever arm on a bicycle that attaches to the bottom-bracket spindle at one end and the pedal at the other end. ... A bicycle pedal provides the connection between the cyclists foot or shoe and the crankarm allowing the leg to be used to turn the crank. ... Downtown Dayton, Ohio, as seen from across the Great Miami River Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States with a population of 166,179 (2000). ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ...

The Wrights fitted a third bicycle wheel horizontally above the front wheel of one of their St. Claire bicycles and used this as an test platform to study airfoil design. They used the profits from Wright Cycle Company to finance their aviation experiments. An airfoil (in American English, or aerofoil in British English) is the shape of a wing or blade (of a propeller or ships screw) as seen in cross-section. ...

The bicycle shop where they built their first airplane, the Wright Flyer, was moved to Greenfield Village in Michigan by Henry Ford. The Wright Flyer (often retrospectively referred to as Flyer I) was the first powered aircraft designed and built by the Wright Brothers. ... A Ford Model T, used for giving tourist rides, is shown above at Greenfield Village. ... State nickname: The Wolverine State, The Great Lakes State Other U.S. States Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) Senators Carl Levin (D) Debbie Stabenow (D) Official language(s) English de-facto Area 96,889 mi² / 250,941 km² (11th)  - Land 56,855 mi² / 147,255 km²... Time Magazine, January 14, 1935 Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Henry Ford Motor Company which later became Cadillac and Ford Motor Company. ...

External links

• Wright Cycles History