Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age,Used
Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age,Used

Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age,Used

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With the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers historymaking flight at Kitty Hawk, world attention is once again turning to these intrepid American inventors. Written by two of the worlds leading experts on the Wrights, The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age will provide a definitive, richly illustrated look at the lives of the brothers and their worldchanging invention.Wilbur and Orville were two eccentric owners of a bicycle shop in the heartland. But it was invention, engineering, and the new possibilities of manned flight that obsessed them. In just three years, they went from designing and flying a glider and creating a test wind tunnel to Wilburs historymaking moments in December 1903 above the dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In moving prose, Crouch and Jakab explain the Wrights achievements and the moments of their great successes, and they paint a masterful personal portrait of the two sometimes erratic, genius personalities (never married, the brothers lived together all their lives), and, most important, the world of pioneering aviation in which they operated.Poignant archival photographs throughout the book capture that world, where ox carts and airplanes coexisted and where two determined brothers from Dayton were celebrated by presidents and kings. But the most poignant of all the images remains that of an airplane, almost kitelike in its simplicity, struggling skyward from the dunes at Kitty Hawk.

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