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Curiosity Over Privilege
- Intellectual curiosity in childhood proved the Wrights' greatest advantage over wealth or status.
- Pursuing varied interests without a fixed grand plan led them to invent the airplane.
Bicycle Shop As A Workshop
- The Wrights ran a bicycle shop and used that trade as their practical workshop and income source.
- Their bicycle experience directly fed mechanical skill and confidence to pursue flight experiments.
Technological Backlash Is Recurrent
- Local culture resisted the idea of human flight as unnatural or forbidden in some places.
- New technologies repeatedly trigger moral panic that later seems ridiculous in hindsight.