The Winged Misconception

Did you know that the 1903 Wright Flyer exhibit that we all know and love was not donate until a matter of decades? This was because Orville Wright was furious that the Smithsonian Museum tried to save face for the sake of Samuel Langley who experimented with the Langley Aerodrome which crashed 9 days before the Wright Brothers took flight. They altered the Aerodrome and called it the first machine "capable" of manned flight. Thus, Orville tried to correct this by donating his flying machine to the London Science Museum in 1925. Finally, in the 1940s, the Smithsonian corrected the mistake and Orville donated the invention a year before his death.