WRIGHT BROTHERS BAKER 223 



The Wright brothers made mistakes in their 9 years of work to be 

 sure and can easily be accused of doing some things the "hard way," 

 but a serious student of their work cannot avoid developing respect 

 for the engineering ability of these two men. 



If there is a keynote to be noticed, it would best be expressed as bal- 

 ance. In their thinking they balanced the advantages against the dis- 

 advantages, in their measuring they balanced the unknown against the 

 known, and in their flight instruction to others they stressed the devel- 

 opment of a sense of balance. Perhaps it was their skill as expert 

 bicycle riders in boyhood that influenced their way of thinking in 

 maturity. 



