Strong Efforts to Win Machine Back from British Museum Washington, Mar, 4.
The Smithsonian Institution is making strong efforts to. win back the original Wright" biplane, which the first successful flight in 2 heavier-than-air machine wa rade, at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, in 1903, by Mr. Orville Wright and his brother Wijbur.
Mr, Orville Wright, it will be recalled, shipped the machine to the British Museum last month as a result, it la believed, of a dispute, [with the Smithsonian Institution, which, magazine article alleged,' fad been conducting a subtle campaign to give the credit for ferodynamic discoverica of the Wright Brothers to the late Professor Langley, one-time secretary of the Institution, The secretary of the Institution now offers to change the label affixed to the Langley model, which describes it as the first machine Jcapable of flight, to "the original Langley, flying-machine of 1903 restored" on condition that Mr. Orville Wright deposits his original machine "where it has always been wanted and where it will have. the Position of honour and the label Will state that it was the first heavier-than-air craft in the history fof the world. to accomplish a tained free flight under its mn Power carrying " man."
The London Sunday "Times" says thay the Wright machine i at present in South Kensington Museum,
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