Birdmen the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
"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...
| Main Author: | Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Fulcrum
- Highway in the sky
- Men in the dunes
- To kitty hawk
- Sophomore slump
- Gas bag
- Where no man had gone before
- Patent pioneering
- The vagaries of the marketplace
- The inexorable progression of knowledge
- The first brazilian aloft
- Langley's legacy
- Closing fast
- Vindication
- Orville and selfridge
- The toast of France
- Trading punches
- Best-laid plans
- Bowing to the inevitable
- Team sports
- Mavericks
- Faster, steeper, higher
- War birds
- Owning the sky
- The wages of righteousness
- The romance of death
- A reluctant steward
- A wisp of victory
- The grip of the spotlight
- The death of innocence.