The History: The Wrights spent the day packing the Flyer, other tools and supplies to ship home to Dayton, Ohio.

Orville recorded in his diary the many telegrams that began pouring in from newspapers and magazines.

Captain Jesse Ward of the Kill Devil Life Saving Station brought telegrams from the Norfolk, Virginia correspondent of the New York World and editor of the Woman's Home Companion. The World correspondent wanted to know how much it would cost for the Wrights to provide exclusive rights to pictures and accounts of the first flight.

Later in the day, John Daniels, also from the Life Saving Station, brought more telegrams. The Wrights colleague Octave Chanute and A. A. Merrill of Boston [later of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California] sent congratulations. Century Magazine wanted an exclusive story and pictures. Scientific American asked for pictures. The New York World wanted a 600-word story telegraphed to them.

Chanute telegramed the brothers a second time. "Pleased at your success. When ready to make public please advise me."

Quotation from the book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Volume 1 by M. McFarland.