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000745095 1001_ $$aMcCullough, David G.,$$eauthor.
000745095 24514 $$aThe Wright brothers /$$cDavid McCullough.
000745095 250__ $$aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
000745095 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$c2015.
000745095 300__ $$a320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c25 cm
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000745095 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-308) and index.
000745095 50500 $$tBeginnings --$$tThe dream takes hold --$$tWhere the winds blow --$$tUnyielding resolve --$$tDecember 17, 1903 --$$tOut at Huffman prairie --$$tA capital exhibit A --$$tTriumph at Le Mans --$$tThe crash --$$tA time like no other --$$tCauses for celebration --$$tEpilogue.
000745095 520__ $$aOn a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed. Historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
000745095 60010 $$aWright, Orville,$$d1871-1948.
000745095 60010 $$aWright, Wilbur,$$d1867-1912.
000745095 60010 $$aHaskell, Katharine Wright,$$d1874-1929.
000745095 650_0 $$aAeronautics$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000745095 650_0 $$aAeronautics$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
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