Orville Wright to Griffith Brewer 13-Apr-1914

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Continues affidavit discussion from:

Wright says he has signed and returned the affidavit but suggests that the narrative could have more strongly emphasized "that our patent was the first instance in the history of aeronautics in which the use of the rudder for purposes of lateral balance was disclosed. The Supreme Court of Germany said that we should have applied for a patent for the use broadly of the rudder for purposes of balancing."

He predicts that the defence in future cases "will claim that all the different elements found in our invention were old, but that no one had the skill to use them; that it was not a matter of inventing a machine that would fly, but rather a matter of training men to operate the machines already invented; that we succeeded in acquiring this skill by simplifying the method of operating the different elements of control by interconnecting them; that our invention should be restricted to the interconnection and should not cover the use of the elements themselves."

Attached (archivally) to Griffith Brewer to Orville Wright 24-Apr-1914.

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Sender Orville Wright
Recipient Griffith Brewer
Date sent 13-Apr-1914
From location Dayton, Ohio
To location
Communication type
Language English
Refers to flight? 1
Tech fields airplane, stability, rudder
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