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Author
Series
Publisher
Loqueleo, Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Presents the lives and accomplishments of the Wright brothers, high school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio, who started out repairing bicycles and went on to build and fly the first successful airplane." --
"Presenta la vida y los logros de los hermanos Wright, abandonan la escuela secundaria de Dayton, Ohio, que comenzó a cabo la reparación de bicicletas y pasó a construir y volar el primer avión con éxito." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Pengion Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two inventors and aviation pioneers who never lost sight of...
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the bicycle makers whose fascination with flight led them to build and fly the world's first successful aircraft powered by an engine and controlled by a pilot. Two such trailblazers are Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers changed the world forever when their "flying machine" soared above the dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright was only in the air for twelve seconds, but he had made the...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Despite their great achievements following their first powered flights in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright still enjoyed virtual anonymity until 1908. In seven crucial days in May of that year, however, the eyes of the world were suddenly cast upon them as they sought lucrative government contracts for their flying technology and then had to prove the capabilities of their machines.In these pivotal moments, the brothers were catapulted into unwanted...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps no two people in history exemplify the spirit of invention better than brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright. Born in the Midwest in the late 1800s, Orville was exceptionally good at creating mechanical devices, and Wilbur had a genius for ideas. The turn of the 20th century came during an age of invention and technological development. Inspired by a fierce worldwide competition to be the first to invent a machine that could fly and be controlled...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright Brothers' myth. They were not--as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first 'flying machine'."--Provided by publisher.
"How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school dropouts, and made a living as bicycle mechanics, have figured out the secret of manned flight? This new history of the Wright brothers'...
