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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.1300973
EAN: 9780393322279
ISBN: 0393322270
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2002-02
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 1257905
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. This is the story of the engineers, scientists, and dreamers who had tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft and blazed the trail to the flying machine.
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Tom Crouch has been a friend and colleague of mine for some fifteen years, so I am not necessarily unbiased in my assessment of his work, but I think you will find that "A Dream of Wings" is the best description and analysis of the pre-history of flight in America up to the time of the Wright brothers that has ever been written. Crouch concentrates on Octave Chanute, Samuel P. Langley, Otto Lilienthal, and others in the pre-Wright era who steadily moved toward the objective of controlled, powered, ... Read More
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