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When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's Outer Banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and dreamers -- men named Chanute and Langley and Herring -- had tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft, from kites and gliders to an assortment of powered flying models. These imaginative people and their wonderful contraptions are brought to life in Tom Crouch's award-winning A Dream of Wings. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed and broke apart, successes were celebrated, hopes rose and fell, and lessons were learned and built upon. Here is the story of those who blazed the trail to the flying machine.

Author

Crouch, Tom D.

Publisher

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874743258

Subjects

Engineering, History, Stem