The Wright Brothers
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- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 215
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Prologue
2:08 -
Ch. 1 Boyhood
22:47 -
Ch. 2 Background
15:23 -
Ch. 3 Printing - And Bicycles
25:51 -
Ch. 4 First Thoughts of Flight
21:16 -
Ch. 5 Gliding at Kitty Hawk
42:33 -
Ch. 6 First Power Flight
46:11 -
Ch. 7 After the Event
12:19 -
Ch. 8 Experiments of 1904-05
30:39 -
Ch. 9 It Still Wasn't "News"
13:44 -
Ch. 10 U.S. Army Not Interested
30:30 -
Ch. 11 Europe Discovers the Wrights
45:54 -
Ch. 12 The Wrights in Europe
20:21 -
Ch. 13 A Deal With the U.S.
31:14 -
Ch. 14 End of Disbelief
10:47 -
Ch. 15 When Wilbur Wright Won France
35:21 -
Ch. 16 Further Adventures in 1909
21:35 -
Ch. 17 In Aviation Business
30:10 -
Ch.18 Patent Suits
20:46 -
Ch. 19 Why the Wright Plane was Exiled, Part 1
40:27 -
Ch. 19 Why the Wright Plane was Exiled, Part 2
22:44
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About this book
A rubber-powered toy helicopter gives Wilbur and Orville Wright an early reason to wonder how machines can fly. Fred C. Kelly begins this biography with their childhood interest in mechanical devices, small earnings and experiments, then follows the stages listed in the book's contents: printing, bicycles, gliders, powered flight and the aviation business. Family habits and practical curiosity help explain how the brothers approached their work.
Written for a general audience, the account also follows the uneven spread of news about their achievements. In one episode, a request from Paris to verify their flights produces a series of confused telegrams before Henry M. Weaver meets Orville in Dayton. Kelly's preface records Orville's review of the manuscript and Mabel Beck's help locating documents.
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Book facts
- Author
- Fred C. Kelly
- First published
- 1943
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 215
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Ciufi Galeazzi