The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane / Russell Freedman ; with original photographs by Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
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New York :
Holiday House,
[1991]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- What Amos Root saw
- Wilbur and Orville
- Art of flying
- Wind and sand
- Back to the drawing board
- Horsepower and propellers
- First practical airplane
- Fliers or liars?
- conquering heroes
- Age of flight
- About the photographs
- Places to visit
- Further reading
- Index.