The Wright Brothers
A Book Club, Technology, Science book. The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from...
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright’s Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why? David McCullough tells the extraordinary and truly American story of the two brothers who changed the world.Sons of an itinerant preacher and a mother who died young, Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in a small side street in Dayton, Ohio, in a house that lacked indoor plumbing and electricity but was filled with books and a love of learning. The brothers ran a bicycle shop that...
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- Pages: 10 pages
- ISBN: 9781442376083 / 1442376082
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All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers // The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power. Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers // If a boy finds he can make a few articles with his hands, it tends to make him rely on himself. And the planning that is necessary for the execution of the work is a discipline and an education of great value to him. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers //
Review to come . . . And here it is:"Do not wait for the boy to grow up before you begin to treat him as an equal. A proper amount of confidence, and words of encouragement and advice . . . give him to understand that you trust him in many ways, helps to make a man of him long before he is a man in either stature or years . . . " Architect... "On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in Southwestern Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright Brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer."This was a very thorough bio of Orville and Wilbur, read by the author, the incomparable David McCullough.... All-in-all, David McCullough did a great job of writing a very readable 262 page book. At times the author presents some fairly technical details but he does so in a manner that can be appreciated by all.The focus of McCulloughs book is the development of the airplane between the years 1900 and 1909 by the Wright brothers. Year after...
