Ohio was indeed a locus of innovation in the late 19th century. In addition to Charles Martin Hall's invention of a method for producing primary aluminum in commercial quantities, two brothers from Dayton were about to make aviation history-and put aluminum to use in a way that even Hall probably had not considered. Although they were not the first ones to build and fly aircraft, Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to create aircraft controls that made fixed-wing flight possible. From the beginning of their aeronautical experimentation in 1899, the brothers- whose mechanical skills were developed in their Dayton bicycle shop- proved to be outside-the-box thinkers. Rather than focusing, as others had, on overcoming "the flying problem" by experimenting with ever-more-powerful engines, they instead sought to lighten the engine to better enable liftoff. (Their use of wind tunnels, observations and calculations on lift and drag, and focus on steering and equilibrium also set them apart from their peers.)
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机译：俄亥俄州确实是19世纪后期的创新中心。除了查尔斯·马丁·霍尔（Charles Martin Hall）发明的用于商业化生产原铝的方法外，代顿（Dayton）的两个兄弟也将创造航空历史-并以霍尔甚至未曾考虑过的方式使用铝。尽管他们不是最早制造和飞行飞机的公司，但奥维尔和威尔伯·赖特（Wilbur Wright）最早创建的飞机控制装置使固定翼飞行成为可能。从1899年开始进行航空实验以来，这些兄弟的机械技巧在他们的代顿自行车商店得到发展，他们被证明是开箱即用的思想家。他们没有像其他人那样专注于通过试验功能越来越强大的发动机来克服“飞行问题”，而是寻求减轻发动机重量以更好地实现升空。 （他们对风洞的使用，对升力和阻力的观察和计算，以及对转向和平衡的关注，也使它们与同龄人区分开来。）
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