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Their shoestring budget, McCullough shows, forced the Wrights into creative experimentation, demanding the “ingenuity, as well as patience” required to test ideas that were “like nothing done by anyone until then.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

For me, the city and the architecture of the city is less the Frank Lloyd Wrights and Frank Gehrys — there’s that — but other landmarks that signal, “Oh, I’m home.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

There, too, state leaders cite the aerospace legacy of the Wrights, as well as Ohio-born astronauts John Glenn and Neil Armstrong.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023

But the Wrights were forced to close when their energy bills tripled from £750 a month to more than £2,800.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2023

As the Wrights wrote Father, banking had always been a problem for earlier aeronauts who had tried to do that simply by shifting their weight around inside the aeroplane.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep