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108 of [[red underline]] bakelite [[/red underline]] being rolled in. In the evening I was the guest of honor to a supper at [[red underline]] Engineers Club. Mr Deeds, [[/red underline]] president of Delco co. and Vice President and general manager of National Cash Register Co. presiding. [[ink underlined annotation in left margin]] Orville Wright [[/annotation]] At my [[strikethrough]] left [[/strikethrough]] right sat [[red underline]] Orville Wright [[/red underline]] of the famous [[red underline]] Wright brothers, [[/red underline]] inventors of the [[strikethrough]] aeroplane [[/strikethrough]] flying machine. He is bald headed, looks about 45 years old, unassuming but as soon as you draw him into conversation he becomes animated and his eyes sparkle. He told me his early experiences with his brother who is dead now. They [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] were engaged in the bicycle business. They had read about the gliding experiments of Lilienthal, the german who got killed. So as a pure matter of sport they tried to repeat those gliding experiments, [[end page]] [[start page]] 109 wherever they took their vacations. As they wanted a windy place they carried out these experiments in that place in North Carolina which since that time has become famous since their first successful flight. At first they had no intention nor ambition of flying, so much the same as so many scientists had demonstrated by their arguments and mathematics that flying was an impossibility. But when [[red underline]] Langley [[/red underline]] and then [[red underline]] Chanute, [[/red underline]] contradicted the former arguments and emitted the belief that flying was possible this fired their ambition and they began to think how to get to the desired result. They started further experiments but soon found out by direct facts that the [[red underline]] theories of Langley were wrong [[/red underline]] and that his suggestions were entirely in the wrong direction and would not make flight possible. He says that