The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry

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Armour and Company, 78–79 Arnold, Henry H. (“Hap”), 89, 101, 143 Astra, 45 Atwood, Harry, 95, 108, 123 Automatic Hook and Eye, 25, 125, 130, 133, 146, 184n7 aviation industry, 1, 68; craft production and, 52–53; dormancy of, 67–68; financing of, 1; France and, 44–45, 46; growth of, 52–53; growth of (1910s), 57; patents and, 2–3, 45, 67–69, 175–76, 178; periodicals of, 114; relative importance of, 59; trade unions and, 34; U.S. development of, 44, 68; U.S. economy and, 58; War Department and, 95; water-based planes and, 95; wing flaps and, 192n3; women and, 92, 177; world markets and, 46; World War I and, 1–2, 53, 69, 155–56, 169. See also under Wright Company; under Wright, Wilbur aviation technology: Curtiss Aeroplane Company and, 93, 96; pusher propellors and, 97–98; tractor propellers and, 110, 147; Wright Company and, 84, 93, 133, 168 Baldwin, Tom, 47, 167 Barnes, Alpheus F., 22, 59, 81, 100, 127, 130, 157, 163; aviation history and, 153; background of, 149–50, 152; Frank Russell and, 151; Loening on, 149–50; Orville Wright and, 23 Barnes, Sarah Furgo, 163 Barnett, Ida Wells, 17 Barney and Smith Car Company, 9; Great Flood of 1913 and, 102; wages and, 32 Beachey, Lincoln, 72, 73 Beatty, Estelle L., 162 Beatty, George, 75 Beck, Mabel, 74 Bell, Alexander Graham, 47 Belmont, August, 14 Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 178 Aerial Age Weekly, 110, 123, 169 Aero Club of America, 18, 21, 22, 47–48; Wright Company and, 66 Aeronautics, 46, 60, 67, 120, 124, 125, 127 African Americans, 9, 185n12; discrimination and, 12, 28; NCR and, 10–11; Wright Company and, 11, 12, 28 Aircraft, 120 aircraft Burgess-Wright Model B, 95 Burgess-Wright Model K, 96 Burgess-Wright Models F and J, 50 Curtiss June Bug, 47 Curtiss Model D, 96 Curtiss Model F, 96, 101, 107 Curtiss Model J, 121 Curtiss Model R, 121 Kettering Bug, 171–72 Knabenshue California Arrow, 166 Wright Model A, 93 Wright Model B, 6, 10, 29, 37, 40, 75, 77, 81, 94–95, 175 Wright Model C, 81, 89, 96–98, 138, 145 Wright Model CH floatplane, 85, 96, 105–6 Wright Model D, 98, 101 Wright Model E, 104 Wright Model EX, 78, 94 Wright Model F, 104–5, 146 Wright Model G Aeroboat, 85, 106–7, 107, 108, 175 Wright Model H, 105, 109 Wright Model HS, 109, 157 Wright Model K seaplane, 110 Wright Model L, 110–11 Wright Model R, 77, 94 ZR-2/R38 airship, 108, 196n33 Alger, Russell A., Jr., 22, 24–25, 87, 99, 130, 158, 163; on Frank Russell, 26 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 33 American Nieuport Company, 22 index An illustration is indicated by a page number in italic type. The letter n following a page number indicates a note on that page. The number following the n is the note number. Index 214 Langley’s aerodrome and, 161–62; naval aviation and, 101; production levels and, 45; workers and, 29–30; Wright patents and, 62, 68–69 Curtiss Aeroplane Company, 46; advertising of, 119, 120–21, 122; exhibition aviation and, 72, 76; expansion of, 126, 156; funding and, 47–48; move to Buffalo and, 50; patents and, 68, 86, 176; production levels and, 93; production methods, public relations and, 48; profitability of,125–26; U.S.military and, 89; World War I and, 165. See also Curtiss, Glenn H.; Herring-Curtiss Company Curtiss Aviation Book, 48 Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 173–74 Dargue, Herbert, 105 Darling Motor Company, 177 Dayton, Ohio, 8; cigar industry in, 12; citymanager government in, 13; demographics of, 1910, 9; educational institutions in, 11–12; Great Flood of 1913 and, 12–13, 41; growth of, 39; industrial development of, 9–10; open shop in, 33; opportunities for women in, 11– 12; political environment in, 12–13; racism in, 10; Socialist Party in, 13; trade union activity and, 32–33; working conditions in, 185n15; Wright Brothers’Home Celebration, 18. See also African Americans; Great Dayton Flood of 1913; women Dayton Airplane Company, 177 Dayton Daily News, 38, 41, 66 Dayton Employers’Association, 33 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco), 10 Dayton Herald, 38, 169 Dayton Journal, 169 Dayton Malleable Iron Company, 15, 27 Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, 111, 177; General Motors and, 178 Deeds, Edward, 10, 14 Deering, James M., 48 Dixon, Cromwell, 77 Dougan, Rose, 92 Dubel, Ernest, 53 DuBois, W. E. B., 17 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 10...