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38739	Hobbs, Leonard S.	The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design			.txt	text/plain	26659	1207	61	[Illustration: Kitty Hawk Flyer with original Wright engine poised on The general history of the flight engines used by the Wright Brothers [Illustration: Figure 1.--First flight engine, 1903, valve side. Daimler was then operating engines of this general design at powers Daimler engine were cast iron, the cylinder barrel, head, and water [Illustration: _Figure 7._--First flight engine, 1903: cylinder, valve 1903 or any other of the Wright engine designs bears little [Illustration: _Figure 9._--4-Cylinder vertical engine: a, magneto Shortly after the construction of the 8-cylinder engine the Wrights [Illustration: _Figure 12._--Original 6-cylinder engine: a, push-rod In the literature are two references to a Wright 6-cylinder engine Minor Design Details and Performance of the Wright Engines Minor Design Details and Performance of the Wright Engines For the Wright 6-cylinder engine their Wrights had the only engines in actual continuous flight operation, Original Wright-built engines of all four of these basic designs are	./cache/38739.txt	./txt/38739.txt