Curtiss, like the Wright brothers, was an avid cyclist and began building motors used on everything from bikes (he set a motorcycle land speed record that held for 30 years) to dirigibles to ...

Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies By Lawrence Goldstone Ballantine, 386 pp. 3.5 stars out of four Follow @rlocker12 on Twitter.

The Curtiss people always think they’re right. I’m a Wright guy. Keuka Lake lies on the edge of Hammondsport, New York, the quiet village where in 1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born.

The company, which draws on the legacy of aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, has built a reputation for its engineered solutions and customer relationships.

Building on the heritage of Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, Curtiss-Wright, headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, has a long tradition of providing innovative solutions through trusted ...

It’s no coincidence that both Curtiss and the Wright brothers began on two wheels and moved to the heavens. The early 1900s saw a melding of human imagination and mechanical development that ...

The Wright Brothers’ patent claim worked in much the same way that modern patent trolling does. Consider, for example, an oft-cited example of patent trouble from the last decade: Personal Audio.

Although the P-40 was sent into combat after the death of Glenn H. Curtiss, the flying machines were constructed by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.

This book came to the attention of an aeronautics pioneer and Wright brothers' rival, Glenn Curtiss. He had been in a legal battle with the Wrights over who invented and owned the patent to the ...

The company, a “technology leader” according to its website, was founded in 1929 after a merger between Glenn Curtiss, the father of naval aviation, and the Wright brothers, the fathers of ...

Like the Wright Brothers, it was through the medium of the bicycle that Glenn Curtiss first cut his teeth in the medium of engineering.