The Wright Brothers
by Fred C. Kelly
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kelly, Fred C. (Fred Charters), 1882-1959
- Original Publication
- United States: Harcourt, Brace & Co.,1943.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Aeronautics -- United States -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67672
- Release Date
- March 21, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
- 2.AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
- 6.PROLOGUE
- 7.I BOYHOOD
- 8.II BACKGROUND
- 9.III PRINTING—AND BICYCLES
- 10.IV FIRST THOUGHTS OF FLIGHT
- 11.V GLIDING AT KITTY HAWK
- 12.VI FIRST POWER FLIGHT
- 13.VII AFTER THE EVENT
- 14.VIII EXPERIMENTS OF 1904-’05
- 15.IX IT STILL WASN’T “NEWS”
- 16.X U. S. ARMY NOT INTERESTED
- 17.XI EUROPE DISCOVERS THE WRIGHTS
- 18.XII THE WRIGHTS IN EUROPE
- 19.XIII A DEAL WITH THE U. S.
- 20.XIV END OF DISBELIEF
- 21.XV WHEN WILBUR WRIGHT WON FRANCE
- 22.XVI FURTHER ADVENTURES IN 1909
- 23.XVII IN AVIATION BUSINESS
- 24.XVIII PATENT SUITS
- 25.XIX WHY THE WRIGHT PLANE WAS EXILED
- 26.FOOTNOTES
- 27.INDEX
- 28.Transcriber’s Notes
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