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Series
Publisher
Loqueleo, Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Presents the lives and accomplishments of the Wright brothers, high school dropouts from Dayton, Ohio, who started out repairing bicycles and went on to build and fly the first successful airplane." --
"Presenta la vida y los logros de los hermanos Wright, abandonan la escuela secundaria de Dayton, Ohio, que comenzó a cabo la reparación de bicicletas y pasó a construir y volar el primer avión con éxito." --
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the bicycle makers whose fascination with flight led them to build and fly the world's first successful aircraft powered by an engine and controlled by a pilot. Two such trailblazers are Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers changed the world forever when their "flying machine" soared above the dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright was only in the air for twelve seconds, but he had made the...
88) Cobblestone
Publisher
[Cobblestone Pub.]
Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY: Includes articles, games, poems, and suggestions for projects based on American history.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1903, the Wright brothers made four brief flights, and no one was there to watch them. They spent the next few years mostly in solitude, experimenting with new ways to build an aircraft and crashing many times. It wasn't until about five years later that Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to publicly demonstrate the possibilities of flight and raise money for airplane patents that the world caught aviation fever. Building on this newfound enthusiasm,...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
With the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers' history-making flight at Kitty Hawk, world attention is once again turning to these intrepid American inventors. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the Wrights, The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age will provide a definitive, richly illustrated look at the lives of the brothers and their world-changing invention. Wilbur and Orville were two eccentric owners of a...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps no two people in history exemplify the spirit of invention better than brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright. Born in the Midwest in the late 1800s, Orville was exceptionally good at creating mechanical devices, and Wilbur had a genius for ideas. The turn of the 20th century came during an age of invention and technological development. Inspired by a fierce worldwide competition to be the first to invent a machine that could fly and be controlled...
Publisher
CBS News
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The first flight of the Wright brothers: December 17th, 1903. Professor Samuel Langley from the Smithsonian Institute recently failed in his attempt to fly an airplane. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville are attempting the same experiment but with one fundamental difference in the machine. Doubts are expressed and the grave danger is clear, but the Wright brothers steadfastly believe in their design mechanics, their passion and their vision.
The...
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