Slow News Day

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Orville Wright over Huffman Prairie, Ohio, October 1905.

The media didn’t make much of the Wright brothers’ early flights, in part because of their secretiveness. Scientific American turned down a story, and the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune ran a 1906 feature called FLYERS OR LIARS?