When the Wright brothers made their historic 1903 flight, what was the first, and for a while, the only magazine to cover the story?

Brainyblonde

In 1903 they made the first powered, manned aircraft. It flew 120 feet. In March of 1904, a civil engineer named Octave Chanute issued a magazine by the name of Popular Science Monthly. The first issue out had a picture of the Wright brothers' plane flying. At that time newspapers everywhere had little coverage of the Wright brothers' discovery. http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110426/wrights_brothers/wrights.html May 15 06, 8:34 AM

peasypod

Could you be after the The Norfolk 'Virginian-Pilot'? http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/wright/entire_class.html May 15 06, 6:55 PM

Czolgolz

Actually, I should have said the first magazine to print an eyewitness account. The answer I was looking for was 'Gleanings in Bee Culture' (for beekeepers), but my question was poorly worded. http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/about/exhibit/Beekeeping/atlantic/page4.html May 15 06, 11:20 PM

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