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After several years at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Orville and Wilbur Wright began using a farmer’s field outside Dayton, Ohio, for experimental flights. They commuted to their pasture testing grounds on the Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana interurban line. (Library of Congress)