Wright Bros and The Birth of Aviation

By Les Garber

ISBN:	9781861267306
PUBLISHED:	April 2005
PAGES:	272
BINDING:	Hardback
SIZE:	246x189 mm
INSIDE:	250 black & white photographs and diagrams

On December 17, 1903 two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio achieved the first powered man-carrying flight that was sustained and controlled. The Wright brothers accomplishments were not lucky accidents and theirs is a wonderful story about the power of individuals and the scientific method.

This thirteen-chapter book is written at the same intellectual level as was used by the Wright brothers. It is structured around three fundamental questions:What is the problem of flight?In 1899, what was known?How did the Wright brothers do it?

RRP: £25

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