| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
320 pages, [48] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-308) and index. |
| Contents |
Beginnings -- The dream takes hold -- Where the winds blow -- Unyielding resolve -- December 17, 1903 -- Out at Huffman prairie -- A capital exhibit A -- Triumph at Le Mans -- The crash -- A time like no other -- Causes for celebration. |
| Summary |
Chronicles the story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity. |
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On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the age of flight began with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. McCullough tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright: men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. McCullough draws private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine. |
| Subject |
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.
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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912.
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Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929.
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Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Aeronautics -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Aeronautics & Astronautics.
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Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929. (OCoLC)fst00314077
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Wright, Orville, 1871-1948. (OCoLC)fst00039096
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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912. (OCoLC)fst00039097
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst00832149
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Aeronautics. (OCoLC)fst00798293
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781476728759 (paperback) |
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1476728755 (paperback) |
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9781476728742 (hardcover) |
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1476728747 (hardcover) |
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