The Wright brothers and the invention of the aerial age /
With the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' history-making flight at Kitty Hawk, world attention is once again turning to these intrepid American inventors. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the Wrights, The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age will...
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Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic Society,
c2003
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2003 Washington, D.C. : [2003] |
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Table of Contents:
- The seeds of genius
- Building wings
- Riding the winds
- The Kitty Hawk years
- The aerial age begins
- The Wright Brothers and the world
- Politics, patents, and planes
- Orville alone