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Wright (ORVILLE an American inventor)

ORVILLE, an American inventor, brother of WILBUR WRIGHT WRIGHT (q. v.), born in Dayton, O., in 1871.

With his brother Wilbur, he was proprietor of a machine shop, and in 1903 became interested in the development of the flying machine. After months of study and experiment, they finally sucashoow WRIGHT tiquary" (1854); "Essays on Archæological Subjects" (1861); "Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages" (1862) ; "Caricature History of the Georges" (new ed._1868); "Womankind in Western Europe" (1869); "History of Caricature and the Grotesque" (2d ed. 1875); "The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon" (5th ed. 1890); etc. He edited "Early English Poetry" (1836); "Piers Plowman" (1842); "The Chester Plays" (1843- 1847); "The Canterbury Tales" (1847- 1851); "Works of James Gillray" (1873); etc. He died in London, Dec. 23, 1877.