Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #79: Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright were American inventors who created the first successful airplane and made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight. The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of "three axis-control," which allowed the pilot to steer the aircraft effectively and maintain its equilibrium. This method remains today standard on all fixed wing aircraft. The brothers’ invention quickly shrunk the size of the Earth, allowing transportation over vast distances, which had always been onerous if not impossible, to be relatively easy. Go to #80: Hipparchus Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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