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The Wright brothers
- Title
- The Wright brothers / by David McCullough.
- Author
- McCullough, David G.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- The story of "the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly, Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher.
- On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the age of flight began with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. McCullough tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright: men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. McCullough draws private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-309) and index.
- Contents
- Beginnings -- The dream takes hold -- Where the winds blow -- Unyielding resolve -- December 17, 1903 -- Out at Huffman prairie -- A capital exhibit A -- Triumph at Le Mans -- The crash -- A time like no other -- Causes for celebration.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6782
- ISBN
- 9781476728742 (hardcover)
- 1476728747 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2014046049
- OCLC
- 897424190
- Author
- McCullough, David G., author.
- Title
- The Wright brothers / by David McCullough.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-309) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6782