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Birdmen : the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies

text Birdmen : the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies

Summary
"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 rid... Read more
Contents
Genius extinguished -- 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 knowle... Read more
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Description
xiv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
2014

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 629.13 GOL in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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