06375cam a2201561 4500 523228949 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780486320151 0486320154 B00C8UQZ9A Amazon 2593c06b-1270-4f96-acc8-5a090c82e055 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1407215 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Howard Fred. Wilbur and Orville [Libby] : A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Dover Publications, 2013. Invention. Outer Banks. aeroplane. flying machines. Le Mans. patents . bee culture. Historical Events. Pulitzer. aviation industry. Aeronautical. american history. success story. winners. Panama Canal. Engineering. Cemetery. Rockingham. aeronautics. 1903. Wright brothers. Illusion. gliders. wright. Bicycles. American heroes. bio. Engine. Carolina. Aviation. Demonstrations. kerouac. human flight. wilber. fundamentals. flyer. commercial. Scientific method. aviation history. War Department. Mechanics. Inventors. cross country. kitty hawk. aircraft design. octave. Gutenberg. Charles Taylor. legal battles. Lilienthal. historical account. david mccullough. propellers. books on wright brothers. brothers invented. brothers story. books on space museums. books on kitty hawks. books on aircraft designs. books on aviation histories. books on aviation industries. books on aviation pioneers. books on bachelor brothers. books on bee cultures. air flying. airplane history. american ingenuity. aviation pioneers. bachelor brothers. bicycle shop. bishop wright. trials tribulations. united brethren. wright bros. severely injured. sister katharine. sister katherine. smithsonian institute. space museum. successful flight. successful flying. powered flight. printing business. samuel langley. manned flight. mcculloch. mccullough focuses. mcculloughs. mccullough's. mechanical genius. milton wright. heavier-than-air. highly technical. hockey stick. intellectual curiosity. james buckley. kill devil. flights. glider pilot. changed history. chanute. dayton ohio. devil hills. donald howard. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4421kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:In the waning days of the 19th century and on the eve of a new technological era, French, English, and American inventors (as well as a host of charlatans, stuntmen, and profiteers) were racing to be the first to achieve powered, heavier-than-air flight. At the center of this activity were two little-known bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio — Wilbur and Orville Wright.<br /> This highly regarded volume, considered by many to be the definitive study of the Wrights, tells the full story of the brothers' lives and works: from their early childhood and initial fascination with flight, through the years of experimentation with gliders on the sand dunes of Indiana, to the exhilarating days on the Outer Banks of North Carolina where they perfected the design for the initial flyer, culminating in the historic first flight in December, 1903, at Kitty Hawk. The book also relates in detail the bitter patent fight and exhausting legal battles that followed as well as Wilbur's untimely death and Orville's later years.<br /> Author Fred Howard, an expert on early aviation technology and member of the team that edited a multi-volume edition of the Wright brothers' papers for the Library of Congress, is uniquely qualified to tell this story. He not only provides a remarkable account of the brothers' enormous achievements, but has also captured the spirit of an extraordinary era, paying tribute to the contributions of such legendary aviation pioneers as Octave Chanute, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Glenn Curtiss, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Louis Blériot, and many others.<br /> Unparalleled in its scope and colorful depiction of the Wright brothers and their times, this authoritative and thoroughly entertaining work will thrill and delight aviation buffs, students of American history, and anyone fascinated by the early days of flight. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/wilbur-and-orville?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/wilbur-and-orville?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/wilbur-and-orville?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)