How we invented the airplane : an illustrated history /

"It was the realization of a dream as old as mankind. On December 17, 1903, a gusty winter day off the sand at Kitty Hawk (actually Kill Devil Hills), North Carolina, two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio achieved the first sustained, powered, heavier-than-air flight in a machine of their own...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
Other Authors:	Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Dover Publications, 1988, ©1953.
Edition:	Dover ed.
Subjects:	Wright, Wilbur, > 1867-1912. Wright, Orville, > 1871-1948. Airplanes. Avions. airplanes. Biografias De Engenheiros. Aeroplanes, history Autobiography Autobiographies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / by Fred C. Kelly
Photographs, 1897-ca. 1900
How we invented the airplane / by Orville Wright
Photographs, 1900-1903
After the first flights / by Orville Wright
Photographs, 1904-1905
After Kitty Hawk: A brief résumé / by Fred C. Kelly
Photographs, 1908-1940
Appendix to the Dover Edition: The Wright Brothers' Aëroplane / by Orville and Wilbur Wright.