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Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane


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By: Seth Shulman


the extraordinary tale of the race to design a manned flying machine
Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

Book tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time, freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss and his airplane out of the sky and off the market. Ultimately, however, it was Curtiss's innovations and designs, not the Wright brothers', that served as the model for the modern airplane.

SB. Book is new & never been read. There is a black line (remainder mark) on the external bottom pages when book is closed. Not visible on individual inside pages.


Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane

ISBN Number: 0-965-45950-0

Item Number: 1397

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