Thirty-one years after their famous first flight, a journalist told Orville Wright that he and his brother embodied the American dream: they were two humble boys with “no money, no influence, and no other special advantages” who had risen to the heights of fame and fortune.

“But it isn’t true,” Orville replied, “to say we had no special advantages. We did have unusual advantages in childhood, without which I doubt we could have accomplished much.”

We are a small team based in New York, reimagining computers so that they can provide “unusual advantages in childhood.” Founded by Robert Kalin, with Geoff Chatterton.

Above except from The Wright Brothers by David McCullough