First in Flight: The Wright Brothers

Two bicycle mechanics who never attended college, or even obtained a high school diploma, would reinvent the science of aviation and aerodynamics on their own. As innovative as ever, they built a miniature wind tunnel in a spare room of their bike shop. And field-tested their designs on the wind-strewn beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and the cow-dotted fields in Huffman Prairie, Ohio.