Author: Fred Howard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Definitive, crisply written study tells the full story of the brothers' lives and work — from their early childhood and initial fascination with flight, the historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, more.
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476728763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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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: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9781575054438
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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A biography of the brothers who, in 1903, made the first powered, controlled flight in an airplane.
Author: Louise Borden
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 9780689848766
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers took their historic first flight, and by 1909 the brothers were full-fledged celebrities. In September of that year, Wilbur and Orville finally showed the world, firsthand, just what they had achieved. In the United States, Wilbur delighted the crowd with spectacular flying demonstrations in New York City during the city's Hudson-Fulton Celebration. He flew over the harbor, glided past tall buildings, looped the Statue of Liberty, and even traveled up the Hudson River to Grant's Tomb. The people of New York were astonished and thrilled to witness these unbelievable flights. At the same time, Orville held daring public exhibitions in Germany and set amazing new records. He flew the highest ever, and took the longest flight with a passenger. The Wright brothers opened doors that no one knew could be opened! Louise Borden and Trish Marx document the extraordinary lives and achievements of two of our most celebrated American heroes, Wilbur and Orville Wright, from their humble beginnings to their later success and riches.
Author: Tom D. Crouch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334746X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family correspondence and diaries, Tom Crouch skillfully weaves the story of the airplane's invention into the drama of a unique and unforgettable family. He shows us exactly how and why these two obscure bachelors from Dayton, Ohio, were able to succeed where so many better-trained, better-financed rivals had failed.
Author: Wilbur Wright
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071363761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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In 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, made the first manned, controlled, sustained, successful powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft. This title represents the record left by the Wright brothers on their triumph, and its consequences to themselves and to the world.
Author: William Elliott Hazelgrove
Publisher:
ISBN: 1633884589
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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How did two high-school dropouts figure out the secret of manned flight? Hazelgrove reveals the differences in Orville and Wilbur Wright's 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. Though 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. Hazelgrove shows that, at Kitty Hawk, Wilbur cracked the secret of aerodynamics and achieved liftoff on December 17, 1903. -- adapted from jacket.
Author: Orville Wright
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486135691
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This fascinating firsthand account covers the Wright Brothers' early experiments, construction of planes and motors, first flights, and much more. Introduction and commentary by Fred C. Kelly. 76 photographs.
Author: Louis Sabin
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780893758523
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Focuses on the childhood of the Wright Brothers and the inventiveness they displayed from their earliest days.
Author: Peter Busby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897330524
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With an inspiring text, original paintings, period photographs, and detailed diagrams, the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright is recreated, from their earliest challenges to their final triumph in 1903--building the plane that would change the world.
