Flying High With The Wright Brothers

Author : Mary Māden
Publisher : Mary Maden Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781890479657
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying High With The Wright Brothers written by Mary Māden and published by Mary Maden Children's Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical fact meets fantasy in this exciting tale of the Wright Brothers' first flight. Join Petey, the wild Corolla pony, and his friend Tazz as they visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial. Journey back into time and witness the birth of aviation through the eyes of three delightful characters, Great Grandpappy Razz, Ozzie Osprey, and Mr. Mockingbird. Based on fact, and using an artist's renderings of the Wright Brothers' photographs, this book will educate as well as entertain."--Cover

Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Scholastic Science Supergiants
ISBN 13 : 9780439833783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can You Fly High, Wright Brothers? written by Melvin Berger and published by Scholastic Science Supergiants. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and pictures answer questions about the Wright brothers and early flight.

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476728763
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wright Brothers written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot. Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed. In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. 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 Review).

Author : Walter A. Schulz
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0761358765
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Moore and the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine written by Walter A. Schulz and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Wright brothers' first historic flight at Kitty Hawk, told through the eyes of a local boy, includes a script for readers' theater.

Author : Wendie C. Old
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618133475
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Fly written by Wendie C. Old and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.

Author : Tom D. Crouch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334746X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright written by Tom D. Crouch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family correspondence and diaries, Tom Crouch skillfully weaves the story of the airplane's invention into the drama of a unique and unforgettable family. He shows us exactly how and why these two obscure bachelors from Dayton, Ohio, were able to succeed where so many better-trained, better-financed rivals had failed.

Author : James Tobin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439135495
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Conquer the Air written by James Tobin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths—Langley’s toward oblivion, the Wrights’ toward the heavens—though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian’s accuracy and a novelist’s eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.

Author : William Elliott Hazelgrove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1633884589
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wright Brothers, Wrong Story written by William Elliott Hazelgrove and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did two high-school dropouts figure out the secret of manned flight? Hazelgrove reveals the differences in Orville and Wilbur Wright's personalities and abilities. He examines how the Wright brothers myth was born when Wilbur Wright died early and left his brother to write their history with personal friend John Kelly. Though Orville's role was important, he generally followed his brother's lead and assisted with the mechanical details to make Wilbur's vision a reality. Hazelgrove shows that, at Kitty Hawk, Wilbur cracked the secret of aerodynamics and achieved liftoff on December 17, 1903. -- adapted from jacket.

Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613743157
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wright Brothers for Kids written by Mary Kay Carson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat that forever changed the world. At a time when most people still hadn’t ridden in an automobile, Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first powered, heavier-than-air flying machine. Woven throughout the heartwarming story of the two brothers are activities that highlight their ingenuity and problem-solving abilities as they overcame many obstacles to achieve controlled flight. The four forces of flight—lift, thrust, gravity, and drag—and how the Wright brothers mastered them are explained in clear, simple text. Activities include making a Chinese flying top, building a kite, bird watching, and designing a paper glider, and culminate with an activity in which readers build a rubber-band-powered flyer. Included are photographs just released from the Wright brothers’ personal collection, along with diagrams and illustrations. The history of human flight and its pioneers, a time line, and a complete resource section for students are also provided.

Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471401247
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Flight written by T. A. Heppenheimer and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2003-02-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aviation expert uncovers the brilliance behind the first successful flight of an engine-powered plane In the centennial year of the Wright Brothers' first successful flight, acclaimed aviation writer T. A. Heppenheimer reexamines what Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved. In First Flight, he debunks the popular assumption that the Wrights were simple mechanics who succeeded by trial and error, demonstrating instead that they were true engineering geniuses. Heppenheimer presents the background that made possible the work of the Wrights and examines the work of Samuel P. Langley, a serious rival. He places their work within a broad historical context, emphasizing their contributions after 1903 and their convergence with ongoing aeronautical work in France. T. A. Heppenheimer (Fountain Valley, CA) has written extensively on aerospace, business, and the history of technology. His many books include Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation (0-471-10961-4), Countdown: A History of Space Flight (0-471-14439-8), and A Brief History of Flight: From Balloons to Mach 3 and Beyond (0-471-34637-3), all from Wiley.