Title: Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention
Publisher: Smithsonian
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0874744563
ISBN 13: 9780874744569
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Explains how the Wright Brothers identified and resolved each technical obstacle to the construction of a flying machine and why they succeeded where so many had failed

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Thoroughly researched and well written, this is a scholarly assessment of the engineering methods used by the Wright Brothers. Jakab documents the progression of their experiments to refine the wings, propulsion system, and control and balance designs that led to a flyable airplane. He underscores the Wrights' hard work and perseverence throughout. Tom D. Crouch's The Bishop's Boys ( LJ 5/15/89) is an excellent companion volume which relates the biographical side of this fascinating story.
- William A. McIntyre, L.R.C., New Hampshire Technical Coll., Nashua
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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