Book ID: CBB000320225

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane (2003)

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Heppenheimer, T. A. (Author)


Wiley


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: 394 pp.; illus; bib.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Crouch, Tom D.
Eileen A. Bjorkman
Colin Cruddas
Wolko, Howard S.
Whelan, Paula A.
Tobin, James
Journals
Research in the History of Technology
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Publishers
Air World
Western Michigan University
University Press of Kentucky
University of Washington Press
Three Rivers Press
Southern Illinois University Press
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Aircraft; airplanes
Biographies
Technology
Inventors and invention
Technological innovation
People
Wright brothers, Wilber and Orville
Cayley, George
Sir Alan John Cobham
Mitchell, R. J.
Johnson, Clarence L.
Schmued, Edgar
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
England
Ohio (U.S.)
Russia
Australia
Great Britain
Institutions
Smithsonian Institution
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