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The Wright brothers / by David McCullough.
On a winter day in 1903, on the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, changed history. The age of flight had begun with the first heavier-than-air powered machine carrying a pilot. Far more than a couple of Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, the Wright brothers were men of exceptional ability, unyielding determination, and far-ranging intellectual interest and curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing.
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- ISBN: 9781476728742 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1476728747 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Beginnings -- 2. The dream takes hold -- 3. Where the winds blow -- 4. Unyielding resolve -- 5. December 17, 1903 -- 6. Out at Huffman prairie -- 7. A capital exhibit A -- 8. Triumph at Le Mans -- 9. The crash -- 10. A time like no other -- 11. Causes for celebration. |
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Subject: | Wright, Orville, 1871-1948. Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912. Aeronautics > United States > History > 20th century. Aeronautics > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Biographies. |