WILBUR AND ORVILLE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Written by Fred Howard
Published by Dover Publications Inc.
in 1998
ISBN: 0486402975
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WILBUR AND ORVILLE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Written by Fred Howard.
Stock no. 1712107
1998.
Softcover.
Fine condition.
The story of the Wright Brothers. B/w photos. 530 pages. Card wraps. ISBN: 0486402975.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface to the Dover Edition
- Preface
- 1. The House on Hawthorn Street
- 2. The Flying Men
- 3. In the Dunes of Indiana
- 4. The Twisted Box
- 5. A Perilous Passage
- 6. The Outer Banks
- 7. A Two-Man Association
- 8. The Camp at Big Hill
- 9. Trade Secrets
- 10. Well-Digging
- 11. Movable Wings
- 12. Two Talks
- 13. The First Flyer
- 14. A Race with the Weather
- 15. An Experiment in Aerodynamics
- 16. The First Four Flights
- 17. Fiction and Fact
- 18. The Year of the Fair
- 19. The Finished Flyer
- 20. A Bold Performance in California
- 21. The Thorn Tree
- 22. One Million Francs
- 23. Fame, But Not Wealth
- 24. Bell's Boys
- 25. The Brothers Abroad
- 26. A Letter of Information
- 27. Return to Kitty Hawk
- 28. Wilbur Has the Jimjams
- 29. "Nous Sommes battus"
- 30. Fort Myer
- 31. A Tragedy and a Comic Interlude
- 32. Camp d'Auvours
- 33. The Homecoming
- 34. Cross-Country
- 35. Herring and Curtiss
- 36. The Races at Reims
- 37. The Last Public Flights
- 38. The Patent Wars Begin
- 39. End of a Friendship
- 40. Exit Herring
- 41. The Exhibition Business
- 42. Who Invented Wingwarping?
- 43 Vin Fiz
- 44. Wilbur
- 45. Company President
- 46. The Aerodrom Affair
- 47. End of the Patent Wars
- 48. War Comes to Dayton
- 49. Orville Alone
- 50. A Feud and a Celebration
- 51. End of the Feud
- 52. Orville's Shoes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index