title: The Wright brothers: a personality profile.
abstract: Wilbur and Orville Wright were able, as a team, to develop the first heavier than air machine capable of sustained, controlled, powered flight while piloted by a man. This was due, very possibly, to the presence of a left hemispheric dominant personality in Wilbur Wright and a right hemispheric dominant personality in Orville Wright. They were thus able to complement each other's skills and creativity in such a way as to make this feat possible. This paper will examine this hypothesis by examining the features of cerebral dominance as now understood, and applying them to the personality profiles of these two brothers.
mesh_terms: D001359:Aviation / Q000266:history*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D007839:Functional Laterality; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male