Remember the trolley line which took the Wrights to Huffman Prairie? Here's the "interurban" that took them. Not much different from other trolleys.

Two heros and a world-shaking patent. On left, Otto Lilienthal, the great European glider. In the middle, Orville Wright in later years. On right, the world's first patent for a "flying machine." And the income would pay for Orville's modest little home he called Hawthorne Hill, below.

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