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A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905 |
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By: Tom Crouch |
When the Wrights soared over North Carolina's Outer Banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small group of engineers, scientists, and dreamers, men named Chanute, Langley and Herring, had tried to make the ascent from kites to gliders to various powered flying models. |
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This assortment of characters and contraptions comes to life. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed and broke apart, successes were celebrated, hopes rose and fell, and lessons were learned and built upon. The dreamers who blazed the path to a flying machine are recognized in these delightful pages. |
352 pgs, softbound, 6 x 8, 55 photos. |
A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905 |
ISBN Number: 978-0393322279
Item Number: 3
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