Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Have you dreamt of having wings and taking off to soar, glide, and dip with the birds? You are not the only one. Many people have wanted to leave the ground behind and join the clouds and the stars. Two such people were brothers named Orville and Wilbur Wright. These men were alway looking for an idea to explore. Thinking as one, they would put their heads together and figure out how to create something new. They invented a printing press out of scrap. They designed bicycles when they were still a new fad. Finally, they turned their minds towards flight. Through lots of determination and endless experimentation, Orville and Wilbur created The Flyer. For a few glorious seconds, they left gravity behind and took to the skies at Kitty Hawk. It was a moment that changed their lives and the course of the world.
A pair of bicycle shop owners struggles with their bishop father's disapproval and the workings of such figures as Augustus Herring, Samuel Langly, and Alexander Graham Bell, who sabotage and compete against their efforts to develop the ...
Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies.
Briefly describes the life and accomplishments of Orville and Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneers.
This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth.
The Wrights figured up: Wrights' total cost for experiments 1900– 1903 less than one thousand dollars, Fred C. Kelly, The Wright Brothers (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943), 112. Interlude “SUCCESS FOUR FLIGHTS”: OW to MW, McFarland, ed., ...
A coloring book with text that describes the experiments and activities of the Wright Brothers.
Hidden Images: Discovering Details in the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk Photographs, 1900-1911, by historian and Wright brothers' scholar Larry Tise, is a distinctive illustrated history, which for the first time brings to light the world of ...
This activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat that forever changed the world.
From the luxury of the Boeing 747 to the abject despair of a cell in the Hanoi Hilton, Supersonic Thunder tells the real story of an amazing chapter of jet aviation through the eyes of the men and women who lived and died to make it a part ...
This is not only the story of the success of two determined brothers from Dayton, but it is the story of a new chapter of history.