The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers and Inventors
Orville and Wilbur Wright are best known for their historic flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their achievement inspired Americans of all ages, but it also brought forth a host of competitors, and the Wright brothers had to struggle to get the credit they deserved. The airplane, however, was just one of a long list of the brothers' accomplishments. Biographer Wendie C. Old details the Wright brothers' impact on history as they set out to prove what others had thought impossible, that human beings could fly.
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The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers and Inventors
Orville and Wilbur Wright are best known for their historic flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their achievement inspired Americans of all ages, but it also brought forth a host of competitors, and the Wright brothers had to struggle to get the credit they deserved. The airplane, however, was just one of a long list of the brothers' accomplishments. Biographer Wendie C. Old details the Wright brothers' impact on history as they set out to prove what others had thought impossible, that human beings could fly.
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The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers and Inventors

The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers and Inventors

by Wendie C. Old
The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers and Inventors

The Wright Brothers: Aviation Pioneers and Inventors

by Wendie C. Old

Overview

Orville and Wilbur Wright are best known for their historic flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Their achievement inspired Americans of all ages, but it also brought forth a host of competitors, and the Wright brothers had to struggle to get the credit they deserved. The airplane, however, was just one of a long list of the brothers' accomplishments. Biographer Wendie C. Old details the Wright brothers' impact on history as they set out to prove what others had thought impossible, that human beings could fly.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780766065062
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 12/30/2014
Series: Legendary American Biographies Series
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range: 11 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

1 Success 5

2 The Bishop's Boys 12

3 In Business With Bicycles 19

4 Experiments With Gliders 27

5 Trusting Their Own Calculations 34

6 Perfecting the Flyer 42

7 The Wright-Curtiss Feud Begins 50

8 The Patent War 61

9 Life After Wilbur 69

10 The Final Recognition 83

Chronology 87

Chapter Notes 89

Glossary 93

Further Reading 94

Index 95

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