The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop. The city wants ...

To give a sense of just how little Dayton politicians understood the lasting historic significance of the Wright brothers at the time, consider that they approved the sale of the famous bicycle ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The city of Dayton ...

The city of Dayton wants to demolish the historic Gem City Ice Cream Co. building in West Dayton that was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bicycle shop. The vacant two-story commercial ...

Dayton has made admirable efforts to preserve ... Williams St., consists of a museum and one of the Wright brothers’ bicycle shops. (The building where they worked on their plans for the world ...

That’s because the Wright family home and one of their bicycle shops are no longer in Dayton. They were bought by Henry Ford and taken to Dearborn, Michigan, in 1936. Then, the brothers flying ...

"They started a bicycle shop, the Wright Cycle Company," he said ... According to the National Air and Space Museum, the brothers had five locations in Dayton and sold other brands before ...

As the pair grew up in Dayton, Ohio, they weren’t immediate ... Building on their bicycle shop roots, the Wright brothers eventually created a chain-and-sprocket transmission linkage for their ...

Where others had failed, the Wright brothers — two bicycle shop owners from Dayton, Ohio — succeeded. The Wrights studied the research and experiments of other aeronautical enthusiasts and ...

but the Wright brothers focused their efforts on the problem of balance. Their practical and applied experience as world-class bicycle makers and engineers gave the two guys from Dayton advantages ...