The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design
by Leonard S. Hobbs
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hobbs, Leonard S., 1896-1977
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Joe Cooper, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Airplanes -- Motors -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38739
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38739
- Release Date
- February 2, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Wright Brothers' Engines And Their Design — The Wright Brothers' Engines And Their Design
- 2.Foreword
- 3.Contents
- 4.Acknowledgments
- 5.The Beginnings
- 6.The Engine of the First Flight, 1903
- 7.The Engines With Which They Mastered The Art of Flying
- 8.The Four-Cylinder Vertical Demonstration Engine and the First Production Engine
- 9.The Eight-Cylinder Racing Engine
- 10.The Six-Cylinder Vertical Engines
- 11.Minor Design Details and Performance of the Wright Engines
- 12.Appendix — Characteristics of the Wright Flight Engines — The Wright Shop Engine
- 13.Bibliography
- 14.Index — Publication in Smithsonian Annals of Flight
- 15.Notes
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