Peter L. Jakab

Visions of a Flying Machine

The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention

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This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had attempted to solve for a century.Step by step, the book details the path of invention (including the important wind tunnel experiments of 1901) which culminated in the momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first major milestone in aviation history.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56098-748-2
EAN: 9781560987482
Produktnummer: 9552465
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 282 S.

Über den Autor

Peter L. Jakab is curator of early aviation at the National Air and Space Museum and the co-editor of The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004). He lives in Virginia.