orville And Wilbur Wright Were A Fascinating Pair. Not Only Did They Invent, Build, And Fly The First Airplane, They Were Also Idiosyncratic Individuals Who Had A Unique Relationship, Sharing A Home, A Bank Account, And A Business Throughout Their Lives. Their Story Is Portrayed Here In Brief, Accessible Chapters, Beginning With Their Childhood Fascination With Flight And Love Of Problem Solving, Then Detailing Their Early Experiments And Dangerous Trial Runs In North Carolina, And Ending With Their Successful Flights Of 1903. This Well-researched And Personable Biography Is Illustrated With Elegant Watercolors By Flight Enthusiast And Noted Artist Robert Andrew Parker, And Will Be Published Just In Time For The 100th Anniversary Of The Wright Brothers’ First Flight. Timeline, Endnotes, Bibliography.

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behind The World’s First Manned Flight Were Orville And Wilbur Wright, Two Brothers With A Dream And The Determination To Carry It Out. In This Rather Dry Biography, Old (the Wright Brothers: Inventors Of The Airplane, For Older Readers) Draws On A Wealth Of Historical And Personal Facts (the Brothers Wore Business Suits During Their Beachside Experiments; They Lived At Home And Never Married). She Recounts The Wrights’ Childhood Fascination With Flying (many A Night [orville] Lay In His Bed In Dayton, Ohio, Imagining What It Would Be Like To Swoop Through The Sky), Their Experiments With Kites And Gliders, And The Events Of December 1903, When They Flew Four Short Flights Off The Dunes Of Kitty Hawk, N.c. Clearly Written Passages Explain How The Brothers Drew On Their Personal Strengths Orville Was The Idea Man, Wilbur The Problem-solver To Overcome Such Knotty Scientific Obstacles As Air Pressure (they Built A Wind Tunnel In A Washtub). The Exhaustive Details Are Well Supported By Parker’s (cold Feet) Sophisticated Ink-and-wash Illustrations, Which Resemble The Fast, Loose Sketches Of A Scientific Notebook And Retain A Suitably Airy Feel. His Drawings Of The Brothers’ Kitty Hawk Attempts Soar Off The Page And Prove More Inspiring Than The Academic Tone Of The Writing. For Young History And Flying Buffs, This Book Capably Delivers The Facts, Then Sends Imaginations Into Flight On The Wings Of The Illustrations. Ages 7-11. (sept.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publish Date : 2002-09-23T00:00:01Z