Wright brothers, wrong story : how Wilbur Wright solved the problem of manned flight
Record details
- ISBN: 9781633884588
- ISBN: 1633884589
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Physical Description:
320 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Wright myth -- Part 1. Preflight -- The biographer, 1942 -- The letter, 1948 -- The murderer, 1884 -- Steam bugs, 1896 -- Typhoid, 1896 -- Inventors, 1900 -- School of one, 1900 -- pt. 2. Flight -- The pilgrim, 1900 -- The Wright sister, 1900 -- Kill Devil Hills, October 18, 1900 -- The mentor, 1901 -- Dangerous times, 1901 -- Return to Kitty Hawk, 1901 -- Wilbur unleashed, 1901 -- Tunnel vision, 1901 -- The Smithsonian, 1902 -- The movable rudder, 1902 -- United States Patent Office, 1903 -- The Western Society of Engineers, 1903 -- The great embarrassment, 1903 -- Great things, September 23, 1903 -- The photograph, December 17, 1903 -- pt. 3. Landings -- Flyers or liars, 1906 -- Death in the sky, September 17, 1908 -- Return to Eden, 1908 -- The injunction, 1910 -- Warped by the desire for great wealth, 1911 -- Final flight, 1912 -- The great flood, 1914 -- To fly again, 1914 -- Hammondsport, New York, 1914 -- Middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 1928 -- A test of wills, 1930 -- The lone eagle, 1934 -- The battle of Britain, 1940 -- The authorized biography, 1943 -- Washington, DC, 1943 -- Mabel Beck, 1948 -- Wright brothers, wrong story. |
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