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Patent Prints
Wright Brothers Flying Machine Patent, 1906
US Patent 821,393, Flying-Machine — Orville and Wilbur Wright, granted 22 May 1906, sheet 1
From the official grant published by the US Patent and Trademark Office · 1906
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Source scan:USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office), via Google Patents. Rights statement of the archive: “United States patent documents are published by the US Patent and Trademark Office and are in the public domain; the drawing is reproduced from the official patent grant.” Original patent drawing: Orville & Wilbur Wright, 1906, patent drawing sheet, letter format. Verified 2026-09-13.
This product is a new archival print made from a restored scan of that patent drawing. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
The story of this patent drawing
The Wrights filed for this patent in March 1903, nine months before they flew, and it was granted in May 1906 as US 821,393, Flying-Machine. Its subject is not the engine or the propellers but the thing they had actually invented: control — the warping of the wings to bank, coordinated with the rudder. Sheet 1 shows the biplane from above, the two wings with their cable trusses, the elevator carried out front on its outriggers and the twin rudders behind, each part numbered for the description, with Orville and Wilbur’s signatures at the foot.
The drawing was made by a patent draughtsman in the plain, exact style the Patent Office required, and it has become one of the most reproduced technical drawings in the world. This print is made from the official grant itself — rendered at double resolution from the USPTO’s scan, the ink lifted onto an aged-paper tone — not from a redrawn copy.
Printed to order on archival matte paper, framed in the country of delivery.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
Restoration notes
Preparation: the drawing sheet of the official patent grant was rendered from the USPTO's 300-dpi scan at double resolution, its bilevel line anti-aliased, the ink lifted onto an aged-paper tone with a light grain, and the empty page margin trimmed. Nothing in the drawing is redrawn or removed; the examiner's stamps, signatures and sheet numbers stay.
Every print carries its archive credit on the packing slip. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn.
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Informational purposes only, no warranties, not professional advice. All products are new archival prints made from restored scans of historical maps held by public archives; they are not original antiques. Colours vary by screen and by paper.
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