The Wright brothers

Summary: "On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?...In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers’ story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781476728742
Physical Description: 320 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
print
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015.