Dream of Wings Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905

Name: Dream of Wings Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905
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ISBN: 9780393322279

ISBN-10: 0393322270

ISBN-13: 9780393322279

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tom D. Crouch

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For decades before the Wright brothers took off, a community of engineers, scientists and dreamers had tried to fly. A Dream of Wings brings to life these characters and their contraptions.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990



Preface to the 1989 Edition


Acknowledgments



Huffman Prairie, 1994



An Engineer Discovers the Airplane



Experiments in Aerodynamics



Chanute and Progress in Flying Machines



A Meeting in Chicago



Boston: The Third Circle



S. P. Langley: The Scientist as Engineer



Lilienthal and the Americans



Chanute: The Glider Years



Herring Alone, 1896-1898



Two Gentlemen from Dayton



The Great Aerodrome



December 1903: The Month of the Flying Machines


Epilogue: The Old Order Passes, 1905-1948


Notes


Bibliography


Index