Wright
Wright names 9 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Wright HORATIO GOUVER- NEUR, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORATIO GOUVER- NEUR, an American military officer; born in Clinton, Conn., March 6, 1820; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1841, and commissioned 2d lieutenant of engineers; for two years was instructor at the Military Academy; superintending engineer of the building of Fort Jackson, at Tortugas, Fla. (1846-1856); lighthouse engineer in Florida (1852-1853); assistant to the chief of engineers in Washington (1856-1861); promoted major, April 6, 1861. He served through the entire Civil War, with an exceptionally brilliant record for leadership; became Brigadier-General of volunteers, Sept. 14, 1861, and took command of the Department of Ohio in August, 1862; commanded a division at the battle of the Wilderness, May 5 and 6, 1864, and a corps at Spottsylvania Court House, May 9-12, and Cold Harbor, June 3; served as Major-General at the at the battle of Opequan Creek, Sept. 19, 1864, and contributed to the decisive victory at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864; received the brevet of Major-General in the United States army for his services at the capture of Petersburg, March 13, 1865; mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866; returned to regular army duty as lieutenant-colonel of engineers, becoming Brigadier-General and chief of engineers, June 30, 1879, which rank he held at his retirement, March 6, 1884. He was co-author of "Report on the Fabrication of Iron for Defenses," and died in Washington, D. C., July 2, 1899.
Wright ORVILLE, an American inventor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ORVILLE, an American inventor, brother of WILBUR 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 ORVILLE WRIGHT ceeded in actually flying, and followed this with perfecting a biplane of their own manufacture. Orville Wright made numerous flights in the United States and abroad, especially in France, where he and his brother were recognized as geniuses of a high order. In 1909 he was awarded a gold medal by the French Academy of Sciences, and received honorary degrees from several colleges. He organized the Wright Aeroplane Company, but in 1915 sold out his interests. He was awarded many trophies and prizes for the development of the aeroplane. He also invented other devices to be used on aeroplanes, including the automatic stabilizer. He was a member of many societies relating to aeronautics. See AERONAUTICS.
Wright THOMAS, an English antiquary and historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an English antiquary and historian; born near Ludlow, England, April 21, 1810. He was one of the founders of the British Archæological Association, and directed Sociation, the excavation of Uriconium. A prolific worker, he wrote "Queen Elizabeth and Her Times" (1838); "Essays on the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages" (1846); "Narrative of Sorcery and Magic" (1851); "Wanderings of an Antiquary" (1854); "Essays on Archæological Subjects" (1861); "Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages" Ages" (1862),; ges" (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.
Wright CARROLL DAVIDSON, an American statistician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CARROLL DAVIDSON, an American statistician; born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840. After distinguished service in the Civil War, he was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1872-1873; afterward chief of the State Bureau of Statistics, lecturer at Harvard University, United States Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1902, and completed the 11th United States census; was Honorary Professor of Social Economics in the Catholic University of America (in 1895-1903); and Professor of Statistics and Social Economics, Columbian University (1900). Besides numerous addresses, pamphlets, and articles in reviews, he published: "Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Labor" (15 vols. 1873-1888); "Census of Massachusetts" (1876-1877); "The Factory System of the United States" (1882); reports of the United States Commissioner of Labor, including "Industrial Depressions" (1886), "Convict Labor" (1886), "Strikes and Lockouts" (1887), and "Railroad Labor"; "Outline of Practical Sociology" (1899), etc. He was a leading authority on statistics. He died Feb. 20, 1909.
Wright HAROLD BELL, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HAROLD BELL, an American writer, born in Rome, N. Y., in 1872. He received an academic education, and from 1892 to 1897 he was a landscape painter. In the latter year he was ordained a minister of the Christian church, and served as pastor in several cities in Kansas, Missouri, and other States. He retired from the ministry in 1908. His first novel "That Printer of Udell's" (1903), was widely read. This was followed by "The Shepherd of the Hills" (1907); "The Calling of Dan Matthews" (1909); "The Uncrowned King" (1910); "The Winning of Barbara Worth" (1911); "The Eyes of the World" (1914); "The Re- Creation of Brian Kent" (1919). These books achieved a wider sale than those of any other American writer during the period in which they were written.
Wright WILBUR, an American inventor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILBUR, an American inventor, brother of ORVILLE WRIGHT (q. v.), born in Millville, Ind., in 1867. The work of the two brothers is so closely associated that it is impossible to relate it separately. He went with his brother to France in 1908, where he won the Michelin prize for sustained flight. During the Hudson-Fulton celebration he flew from Governor's Island to the Hudson river, which was considered a remarkable feat in those days. He received a gold medal from the French Academy of Sciences in 1909. He died in 1912. For a detailed account of the WILBUR WRIGHT Wright brothers in the perfection of the aeroplane, see AERONAUTICS.
Wright WILLIAM ALDIS, an English editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM ALDIS, an English editor, noted as a Shakespeare scholar; born about 1836. He was the principal contributor in Biblical geography and biography to Dr. Smith's and pine. Of minerals, by far the most "Dictionary of the Bible" (3 vols. 1860- 1863), and made an abridged edition. He edited Bacon's essays (1862), and his "Advancement of Learning" (1869); was coeditor with W. Clark, of the "Cambridge Shakespeare" (9 vols. 1863- 1866), and the "Globe Shakespeare" (1 vol. 1864); and edited the "Bible Word- Book" (1866), Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale," the "Metrical Chronicle" of Robert of Gloucester, and other works. He died in 1914.
Wright LUKE E., an American lawyer and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUKE E., an American lawyer and public official, born in Tennessee, in 1846. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar, practiced law in Memphis, and served as attorney general of his native State for eight years. From 1900 to 1904 he was a member of the United States Philippine Commission, serving as its president from 1903 to 1904; from 1904 to 1906 governor-general of the Philippine Islands; from 1906 to 1907 United States ambassador to Japan; and from July 1908 to March 1909 Secretary of War in President Roosevelt's cabinet.
Wright MRS. MABEL (OSGOOD)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. MABEL (OSGOOD), an American writer on nature; born in New York, in 1859. She wrote: "The Friendship of Nature," a series of outdoor studies; "Birdcraft," a book on New England birds; "Tommy-Anne: A Natural History Story"; "Citizen Bird," a book for beginners; "The Dream Fox Story Book" ok" (1900); "The Flowers and Ferns in Their Haunts" (1901); "The Open Window" (1908); "The Stranger at the Gate" (1913).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's gave Orville Wright a modest paragraph in 1921 as "an American inventor" who had sold out his aeroplane interests in 1915; he lived until January 30, 1948, long enough to see jet fighters, transatlantic airliners and aircraft-delivered atomic bombs, and is now the best-known Wright in the English-speaking world, with the 1903 Kitty Hawk machine hanging in the Smithsonian. Two of the others have quietly outlasted their fame in different ways: Carroll D. Wright, "a leading authority on statistics" and first US Commissioner of Labor, stands behind the modern Bureau of Labor Statistics, while Horatio G. Wright, the Civil War corps commander, was Chief of Engineers when the Washington Monument was finished in 1884. Harold Bell Wright, described here in the present tense as a working novelist, was one of the biggest-selling American authors of his day and is now read almost only by specialists. Thomas Wright's antiquarian volumes have been superseded, though Uriconium, whose excavation he directed, is still dug as Roman Wroxeter.
Written for this edition, 2026.