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I'm inclined to agree. If their wiki is true, they were just doing it out of rather pure interest with no financial backers whatsoever until later on. In fact
by silisili 2y ago
I'm inclined to agree. If their wiki is true, they were just doing it out of rather pure interest with no financial backers whatsoever until later on. In fact it made it sound like other countries basically quit funding some other claimants listed in this thread because of how bad they turned out and assumed the brothers were scammers making fake claims. Until they showed up one day and flew circles in the air.
That pure drive of doing something out of sheer interest and refusal to accept failure is really inspirational. I wish I had half the drive they did!
- ant6n 2y agoWe have no problem with drive and interest, but I wish we had half the funding of the scammers!
- WalterBright 2y agoThe Wrights were motivated by money. They wanted to get rich off of licensing their technology. They turned out to be fantastic engineers, but not so good at making money.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoaccording to the U.S Park Service they got rich, but looked forward to being able to retire and devote themselves to scientific research again https://www.nps.gov/articles/wright-brothers.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/wright-brothers.htm
- WalterBright 2y agoThey got rich after they stepped down from management.
- cryptonector 2y agoIt turns out that greedy patent licensing schemes kill the patented ideas rather than lead to innovation. Patents themselves can be worthwhile for society, but we need patent lifetimes that comport to each industries typical R&D cost recoup times, not 20+ years.
- zZorgz 2y agoThey also did not attend university nor received high school diplomas. They were self driven a lot.
- WalterBright 2y agoLook at their notebooks - they did the math!