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The Wright brothers : heirs of Prometheus / edited by Richard P. Hallion ; with contributions by Roger E. Bilstein ... [et al.]

Title: The Wright brothers : heirs of Prometheus / edited by Richard P. Hallion ; with contributions by Roger E. Bilstein ... [et al.]
Publication: Washington : Published by the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution : distributed by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.

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xiii, 146 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

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Introduction / Richard P. Hallion -- Engineers and the airplane : aeronautics in the pre-Wright era / Tom D. Crouch -- Wilbur and Orville Wright : seventy-five years after / Marvin W. McFarland -- The Wright brothers : their influence / Charles H. Gibbs-Smith -- The airplane, the Wrights, and the American public : popular attitudes toward aviation, 1900-1925 / Roger E. Bilstein -- Recollections and reflections / Paul E. Garber -- The Wright brothers : a photographic essay / Richard P. Hallion.
Orville Wright : "How we made the first flight" -- Amos I. Root sees Wilbur Wright fly : the first eyewitness account of a powered airplane flight -- The Army advertises for a "flying machine" : the 1907 Signal Corps specification -- The Wright Flyers of 1903, 1904, and 1905 -- The Wright brothers' engine of 1903 -- A chronology of the Wright brothers, 1867-1948 -- The Wright brothers : a guide to research / Dominick A. Pisano.

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