# Curtiss and the "new" airplane.  Would SCotUS have ruled differently?

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The Wright’s diaries tell that Wilbur got the idea for the wing-warping mechanism by idly twisting the cardboard box a bicycle inner tube had come in. There is no record that they’d ever heard of Penaud at the time. But a good idea whose time has come will often occur to several persons independently.

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