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Author : Marvin W. McFarland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol 2, 1906-1948 written by Marvin W. McFarland and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258207878
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright V2, 1906-1948 written by Wilbur Wright and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Two Volumes. Volume 1, 1899-1905; Volume 2, 1906-1948.
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: 1906-1948 written by Wilbur Wright and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 1899-1905 -- V.2 1906-1948.
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright written by Wilbur Wright and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258099336
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, V1, 1899-1905 written by Wilbur Wright and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Two Volumes. Volume 1, 1899-1905; Volume 2, 1906-1948.
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: 1906-1948 written by Wilbur Wright and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 1899-1905 -- V.2 1906-1948.
Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962558X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Reconsidering a Century of Flight written by Roger D. Launius and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into history during a twelve-second flight on a secluded North Carolina beach. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, these essays chart the central role that aviation played in twentieth-century history and capture the spirit of innovation and adventure that has characterized the history of flight. The contributors, all leading aerospace historians, consider four broad themes relating to the development of flight technology: innovation and the technology of flight, civil aeronautics and government policy, aerial warfare, and aviation in the American imagination. Through their attention to the political, economic, military, and cultural history of flight, the authors establish that the Wrights' invention--and all that followed in both air and space--was one of the most significant technologies of the twentieth century, fundamentally reshaping our world. Supported by the First Flight Centennial Commission The contributors are Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Tami Davis Biddle, Roger E. Bilstein, Hans-Joachim Braun, David T. Courtwright, Anne Collins Goodyear, Roger D. Launius, William M. Leary, David D. Lee, W. David Lewis, John H. Morrow, Dominick A. Pisano, and A. Timothy Warnock.
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute: 1906-1948 written by Wilbur Wright and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Stewart
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613740123
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book First Class written by Alison Stewart and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of Washington, DC, opened the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, the first black public high school in the United States; it would later be renamed Dunbar High and would flourish despite Jim Crow laws and segregation. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary faculty: its early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, and at a time it had seven teachers with PhDs, a medical doctor, and a lawyer. During the school's first 80 years, these teachers would develop generations of highly educated, successful African Americans, and at its height in the 1940s and '50s, Dunbar High School sent 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as in too many failing urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students are barely proficient in reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart—whose parents were both Dunbar graduates—tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and possible resurgence as it looks to reopen its new, state-of-the-art campus in the fall of 2013.
Author : James Tobin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439135495
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
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 464 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 : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476728763
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
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 : Robert J. Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198022875
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Forks, Phonographs, and Hot Air Balloons written by Robert J. Weber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do inventions take shape? How did the inventors of the sewing needle, the hammer, or the wheel find their ideas? Are these creations the result of random events, or are hidden principles at work? Using everyday objects most of us take for granted--from forks and Velcro to safety pins and doorknobs--noted cognitive psychologist Robert Weber takes a fascinating look at how our world of inventions came into being, and how the mind's problem-solving abilities gave them the forms they have. As an archaeologist studies shards of pottery for clues about an ancient culture, Weber examines the many forms of inventions, from stone knives to genetically engineered mice, and finds a rich record of the work of many minds over time--a record of human creativity and problem-solving handed down through the centuries. He offers various methods for analyzing what mental paths might have been taken by these inventive minds. In the test for design, for example, he ponders how an item would work if various components were shuffled or constructed differently, revealing how the optimal shape of the invention was discovered. He challenges the reader to engage in thought experiments to explore how the horse-drawn cart, the waterscrew, or the fork might have taken shape over many years, through the efforts of successive inventors and adapters. In stripping these simple artifacts to the bone, Weber finds a hidden intelligence at work in everyday objects as well as recurrent heuristics (basic principles or rules of thumb) that are common among many of our most successful inventions--heuristics powerful enough to generate endless new ideas. Weber ranges across the work of Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, the Wright brothers, as well as grade-school children who have won national awards for their inventions, revealing that the same principles are at work in the discoveries of all of them. Basic principles of invention, he writes, govern how we think, solve, and manipulate ideas, whether mechanical or mental, real or mythological. Weber's playful, original, and insightful look at the inventions around us reveals a hidden intelligence in everything from screws to tea bags to synthesizers--an intelligence based on principles of creativity and problem-solving. His fascinating account sheds light on how the mind hones its most original thoughts and products, and provides a field guide for how we can tap into our own creativity.
Author : Wilbur Wright
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071363761
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Papers written by Wilbur Wright and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, made the first manned, controlled, sustained, successful powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft. This title represents the record left by the Wright brothers on their triumph, and its consequences to themselves and to the world.
Author : Tim Brady
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323715
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (237 download)
Download or read book The American Aviation Experience written by Tim Brady and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America. The seventeen chapters in The American Aviation Experience: A History range chronologically from ancient times through the Wright brothers through both world wars, culminating with the development of the U.S. space program. Contributors also cover balloons and dirigibles, African American pioneers in aviation, and women in aviation. These essayists--leading scholars in the field--present the history of aviation mainly from an American perspective. The American Aviation Experience includes 335 black-and-white photographs, two maps, and an appendix, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Science of Flight.."
Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691254761
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Paul Laurence Dunbar written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.
Author : Laurence M Burke
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682477509
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book At the Dawn of Airpower written by Laurence M Burke and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Dawn of Airpower: The U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps’ Approach to the Airplane, 1907–1917 examines the development of aviation in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps from their first official steps into aviation up to the United States’ declaration of war against Germany in April, 1917. Burke explains why each of the services wanted airplanes and show how they developed their respective air arms and the doctrine that guided them. His narrative follows aviation developments closely, delving deep into the official and personal papers of those involved and teasing out the ideas and intents of the early pioneers who drove military aviation Burke also closely examines the consequences of both accidental and conscious decisions on the development of the nascent aviation arms. Certainly, the slow advancement of the technology of the airplane itself in the United States (compared to Europe) in this period affected the creation of doctrine in this period. Likewise, notions that the war that broke out in 1914 was strictly a European concern, reinforced by President Woodrow Wilson’s intentions to keep the United States out of that war, meant that the U.S. military had no incentive to “keep up” with European military aviation. Ultimately, however, he concludes that it was the respective services’ inability to create a strong, durable network connecting those flying the airplanes regularly (technology advocates) with the senior officers exercising control over their budget and organization (technology patrons) that hindered military aviation during this period.
Author : Newton Copp
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531115
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Discovery, Innovation, and Risk written by Newton Copp and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovery, Innovation, and Risk presents brief descriptions of selected scientific principles in the context of interesting technological examples to illustrate the complex interplay among science, engineering, and society.
