INSIDE WASHINGTON: Archives’ record-keeping lapse (AP)

This image provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) shows the first of the three-page patent application #821,393, dated May 21, 1903, submitted by Orville and Wilbur Wright to the U.S. Patent Office for their Flying Machine. This and many other historical items that that the Archives once possessed are missing; some were stolen by researchers or rogue Archives employees; others simply disappeared without a trace.  (AP Photo/U.S National Archives Records Administration)AP – National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.

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