Interviewer
Susan Bennett
Date of Interview
3-1967
Length of interview and transcript
42 pages
Document Type
Transcript
Language
English
Description
This transcript is part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted with people who knew and interacted with Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright and/or Charles F. Kettering. In this interview, the subject discusses her husband's notebook, Orville Wright, wind tunnels, the restoration of a Wright plane, poor U.S. reception, Charles F. Kettering, Col. Edward A. Deeds, Orville Wright's car, Griffith Brewer, the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Langley, Glenn Curtiss, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Repository
University Archives and Special Collections
Identifier
UASC-033-JacobsR
Rights
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eCommons Citation
Jacobs, Ruth, "Interview with Ruth Jacobs" (1967). Wright Brothers - Charles F. Kettering Oral History Project. 10.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/archives_wrightkett_oh/10
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Comments
Ruth Jacobs' husband, James Jacobs Sr., was an engineer who worked for and with the Wright brothers. She was nurse before her marriage to James Jacobs.