Название: Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
Автор: William Hazelgrove
Издательство: Prometheus
ISBN: 1633884595
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 131
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not — as we have all come to believe—two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school dropouts, and made a living as bicycle mechanics have figured out the secret of manned flight? This new history of the Wright brothers' monumental accomplishment focuses on their early years of trial and error at Kitty Hawk (1900-1903) and Orville Wright's epic fight with the Smithsonian Institute and Glenn Curtis.