> the Wright brothers waged a prolonged, embarrassing and largely unsuccessful battle against other early aviators over who owned the aeronautical principles th

> the Wright brothers waged a prolonged, embarrassing and largely unsuccessful battle against other early aviators over who owned the aeronautical principles that made flight possible Whose to say this wasn't at least partially the reason the Wright brothers are cemented in history? I'd argue that their names being attached to so much litigation strengthened the "Wright Brothers invented flight" association in the minds of historians (which may have even been their actual end-goal with all this).