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Their first active work began in the year 1900, when as a vacation, they built a gliding machine on the coast of North Carolina, and each year in the fall of the year, spent a few weeks there till in 1903, they attached a gasoline motor to it and flew, December 17th, four short flights. They flew against the wind and made at the longest only about a half mile, counting the velocity of the wind.
Their first interest in the art of flying, they date back to about the year 1879, when I brought home to them a Heliocoptere, a toy which could fly. Later on they began to watch Lilienthal, and followed him to his death, in the art of gliding.