Published in 2002 as volume 27 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series, this bibliography commemorates the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight- December 17, 1903
Presents the boyhood of the brothers who flew the first airplane in 1903.
In these two volumes is the fascinating correspondence (1900-1919) between Wilbur Wright and Octave Chanute, the early leader in the aeronautics field who freely lent his genius and aid to the brothers; excerpts from 33 Wright diaries and ...
Over the course of the following years and decades, the Wright brothers captured the remarkable evolution of aviation as it moved from an impossible dream to a full-blown industry.The Wrights' photographs, preserved by the Library of ...
This “aeroplane du type de Wright,” from which grew the Voisin, Farman, and earlier Blériot machines, was tested at Berck in April, 1904, by a young man from Lyons, M. Voisin, it being his debut in aviation. Pictures of this pioneer ...
Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book ...
Tells the story of the Wright brothers who invented to first airplane
Focuses on the childhood of the Wright Brothers and the inventiveness they displayed from their earliest days.
Louise Borden and Trish Marx document the extraordinary lives and achievements of two of our most celebrated American heroes, Wilbur and Orville Wright, from their humble beginnings to their later success and riches.
With little formal education and even fewer business skills, Wilbur and Orville Wright solved the scientific mystery that defeated the greatest minds of their day. This collection of six hundred...
The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute