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A biography of the aviator brothers, for beginning readers.
Author : Max Marquardt
Publisher : Steck-Vaughn
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1989-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780811467353
A biography of the aviator brothers, for beginning readers.
Author : Max Marquardt
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780785788485
A biography of the aviator brothers, for beginning readers.
Author : Marquardt, Max
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Nelson Canada
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 9780176037741
Author : Walter A. Schulz
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761371176
The story of the Wright brothers' first historic flight at Kitty Hawk, told through the eyes of a local boy, includes a script for readers' theater.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316971591
Provides a look at the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, as seen through the eyes of their younger sister, Katharine, who provided support and encouragement while they worked on their many inventions.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476728763
The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author : Andrew Woods
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9780606023665
Memoir of a Freedom Lawyer. These cases from the files of three decades in the career of a fearless maverick libertarian lawyer who took on the big and powerful for simple justice read like great courtroom drama.
Author : Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575054438
A biography of the brothers who, in 1903, made the first powered, controlled flight in an airplane.
Author : William Hazelgrove
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1633884597
This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine." How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school dropouts, and made a living as bicycle mechanics have figured out the secret of manned flight? This new history of the Wright brothers' monumental accomplishment focuses on their early years of trial and error at Kitty Hawk (1900-1903) and Orville Wright's epic fight with the Smithsonian Institute and Glenn Curtis. William Hazelgrove makes a convincing case that it was Wilbur Wright who designed the first successful airplane, not Orville. He shows that, while Orville's role was important, he generally followed his brother's lead and assisted with the mechanical details to make Wilbur's vision a reality. Combing through original archives and family letters, Hazelgrove reveals the differences in the brothers' personalities and abilities. He examines how the Wright brothers myth was born when Wilbur Wright died early and left his brother to write their history with personal friend John Kelly. The author notes the peculiar inwardness of their family life, business and family problems, bouts of depression, serious illnesses, and yet, rising above it all, was Wilbur's obsessive zeal to test out his flying ideas. When he found Kitty Hawk, this desolate location on North Carolina's Outer Banks became his laboratory. By carefully studying bird flight and the Rubik's Cube of control, Wilbur cracked the secret of aerodynamics and achieved liftoff on December 17, 1903. Hazelgrove's richly researched and well-told tale of the Wright brothers' landmark achievement, illustrated with rare historical photos, captures the excitement of the times at the start of the "American century."
Author : Peter L. Jakab
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1997-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1560987480
This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had attempted to solve for a century. Step by step, the book details the path of invention (including the important wind tunnel experiments of 1901) which culminated in the momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first major milestone in aviation history. Enhanced by original photos, designs, drawings, notebooks, letters and diaries of the Wright Brothers, Visions of a Flying Machine is a fascinating book that will be of interest to engineers, historians, enthusiasts, or anyone interested in the process of invention.