same materials, and it printed a thousand pages an hour, which was remarkable back then. "Orville remembered that a veteran printer came by one day and asked to see his homemade press: He went into the press room, stood by the machine, looked at it, then sat down beside it and finally crawled underneath it. After he had been under the machine some little time, he said, 'Well, it works, but I certainly don't see how.'"(1.44)
             In 1890, a bicycle craze swept the nation, and the Wrights both purchased bikes for themselves. After fixing their own bikes, friends started bringing in their bikes. The brothers gained a reputation as skilled mechanics. In 1892, they formed the "Wright Cycle Company," and opened a shop. A few months later, they opened four more shops. At first, they rented, sold, and repaired bicycles, but they soon built their own custom bikes, the "St. hair," and the less expensive "Van Cleve." They also built a one-cylinder combustion engine to power the tools in their shop.
             The Wrights main ambition was controlled flight when the they first started flying. All the previous flights flown by other inventors were out of control and usually ended in a crash. The Wrights thought that the main flaw of other inventors was their out of control flights. So they set out to control their flights. After watching the hawks near Dayton, they came up with the ider,of "wing warping." Wing warping was the equivalent to a hawk raising one of its wings to raise its angle of attack and lowering fhe other wing to lower its angle of attack which made for a smooth banking turn. To achieve this, Orville discovered that by twerting a box he could "wing warp," which would raise one side and lower the other. To make a box-like shape the Wrights made their plane a biplane (a two-winged airplane, one on top of the other).
             During the fall and winter, the...