Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

When the world learned that Wilbur and Orville Wright had performed man's first powered, controlled flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, that sleepy village became an international landmark. In addition to recording their first flight in one of the twentieth century's most famous photographs, the Wrights took hundreds of other images of the windswept clime and the people they met on North Carolina's coast. Historian Larry Tise uses their photographs to reveal people, places and events nowhere else recorded. Join Tise for a guided tour of the Wright brothers' Outer Banks encampment between 1900 and 1911.

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Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

When the world learned that Wilbur and Orville Wright had performed man's first powered, controlled flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, that sleepy village became an international landmark. In addition to recording their first flight in one of the twentieth century's most famous photographs, the Wrights took hundreds of other images of the windswept clime and the people they met on North Carolina's coast. Historian Larry Tise uses their photographs to reveal people, places and events nowhere else recorded. Join Tise for a guided tour of the Wright brothers' Outer Banks encampment between 1900 and 1911.

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Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

by Larry E. Tise
Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

by Larry E. Tise

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When the world learned that Wilbur and Orville Wright had performed man's first powered, controlled flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903, that sleepy village became an international landmark. In addition to recording their first flight in one of the twentieth century's most famous photographs, the Wrights took hundreds of other images of the windswept clime and the people they met on North Carolina's coast. Historian Larry Tise uses their photographs to reveal people, places and events nowhere else recorded. Join Tise for a guided tour of the Wright brothers' Outer Banks encampment between 1900 and 1911.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467142434
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 03/18/2019
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author


Dr. Larry E. Tise, a native Carolinian, is an author and historian living and working in both Philadelphia and North Carolina. His bachelor and divinity degrees are from Duke University and his PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is past director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History and Wilbur and Orville Wright Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University. For more of his Wright brothers' research, visit www.WorldAloft.org.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Note on the Wright Brothers' Photographs 15

Introduction 17

Discovering Kitty Hawk, 1900 21

Base Camp Kill Devil Hills, 1901 47

The Conquest of Flight, 1902 65

Powered Flight, 1903 91

Flight Enunciated Worldwide, 1908 109

The Soaring Place Revisited, 1911 119

Afterword 139

Epilogue, Hurricanes, Camping Gear, Targets and the Sad Fate of the 1908 Kitty Hawk Flyer 141

Index 157

About the Author 163

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