Tom D. Crouch

A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905

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When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and dreamers-men named Chanute and Langley and Herring-had tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft, from kites and gliders to an assortment of powered flying models.These imaginative people and their wonderful contraptions are brought to life in Tom Crouch's classic A Dream of Wings. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed and broke apart, successes were celebrated, hope… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-32227-9
EAN: 9780393322279
Produktnummer: 9627740
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 349 S.
Masse: H18.7 cm x B16.9 cm x D2.1 cm 390 g
Auflage: Norton Pbk
Gewicht: 390

Über den Autor

Tom D. Crouch, author of The Bishop's Boys and A Dream of Wings, is curator emeritus of the aeronautics division at the National Air & Space Museum. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.