1902 Still photo of glider made by Wright brothers in which they used wing warping technique for balance in flight. 1903 Still photograph of Orville Wright's first flight and plane on the ground. 1908 Newspaper headline and front page story of Wilber Wright's flights in France along with pictures. Wilbur Wright works on a transporting wheel of his plane in France. Horse tows plane across a field in France.
Escape artist and stage magician Harry Houdini performs. Huge crowd watches police buckle Harry Houdini into a straitjacket. Harry Houdini, upside down and wearing a straitjacket, being hoisted by a crane four stories above the ground. Harry Houdini escaping from straitjacket and throwing it to the ground. At a Paris theater, three men tie Harry Houdini to a chair. A gendarme sits beside Harry Houdini as he watches. Harry Houdini struggles to free himself, falls with his chair, and manages to undo his rope. Harry Houdini covers the head of the gendarme with coat, ties rope around gendarme’s neck and to the chair.