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On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men...
2) The flyers
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology of milestones in the history of flight.
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1989.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In 1903, the Wright brothers made three brief flights, and no one was there to watch them. Six years later, Wilbur Wright traveled to Europe to evangelicize about aviation and raise money for patents--and the world got aviation fever. That summer, a group of champagne companies organized the first ever international air meet in Rheims, France. They knew they could throw a great party and sell a lot of champagne. They didn't know that this single...
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"The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they...
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Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"As creators of the first airplane to be successful in manned flight, the Wright brothers made long-distance travel much easier. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the lives of the inventors. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms."--Publisher's description.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The sister of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Katharine looks for a new challenge and finds it in the form of sleuthing when someone steals Wilbur's as-yet-unpatented flyer plans, which leads to murder, and she must keep her feet on the ground to make sure her brothers are free to fly another day.
16) About brothers
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Publisher
Candlelight Media Group
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Freedom on the water (2002): A broken life and a damaged relationship between brothers find a new beginning in this touching and inspiring film.
The wrong brother (2000): Hector has always felt that his brothers were above him. The famous Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, invented a miraculous, world-changing flying machine, and Hector is desperate to prove his own worth with an invention of his own.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly -- men who wanted it passionately, fecklessly, hopelessly. But now, at the turn of the twentieth century, Wilbur Wright and a scattered handful of other adventurers...
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Publisher
Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Wright Brothers are famous for their role in the history of flight! Kids can read this book to find out more about the Wright Brothers and how they flew the first airplane. They will learn how the Wright Brothers started a bicycle shop first and how their first flight at Kitty Hawk went.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles.
Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo...
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