How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History by Orville Wright  (3)
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With the one-hundredth anniversary of powered flight, here's yet another book on the Wright brothers. What makes this one exceptional is the 250 illustrations--most of them photographs. The images were selected from a private collection, from the Library of Congress, and from Wright State University. The private collection belongs to Burton, who found and purchased the vintage estate prints of William Preston Mayfield, who began photographing the brothers in 1910. The photos show their early experiments with gliders, their 1903 flight, and their tours of European and American air shows. Others include one showing their sister and her friends sitting around a dining table, a view of the Wright family home taken from the street, the first glider, Orville flying while Wilbur runs alongside the plane, Orville with the king and queen of Spain, and the brothers with President Taft. This photographic record of their pioneering work in aviation is being published to coincide with The Wright Brothers Legacy, an exhibition organized by the Dayton Art Institute. George Cohen
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this book is an in-depth photographic portrait of their monumental work in aviation--and the world's reaction to the invention of flight. From their early experiments with gliders to the first flight of heavier-than-air aircraft, from their tours of European and American air shows to their development of a military aircraft, to the final installation of the Kitty Hawk Flyer at the Smithsonian Institution in 1948, this book celebrates an invention that changed the world.
With the one-hundredth anniversary of powered flight, here's yet another book on the Wright brothers. What makes this one exceptional is the 250 illustrations--most of them photographs. The images were selected from a private collection, from the Library of Congress, and from Wright State University. The private collection belongs to Burton, who found and purchased the vintage estate prints of William Preston Mayfield, who began photographing the brothers in 1910. The photos show their early experiments with gliders, their 1903 flight, and their tours of European and American air shows. Others include one showing their sister and her friends sitting around a dining table, a view of the Wright family home taken from the street, the first glider, Orville flying while Wilbur runs alongside the plane, Orville with the king and queen of Spain, and the brothers with President Taft. This photographic record of their pioneering work in aviation is being published to coincide with The Wright Brothers Legacy, an exhibition organized by the Dayton Art Institute. George Cohen
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this book is an in-depth photographic portrait of their monumental work in aviation--and the world's reaction to the invention of flight. From their early experiments with gliders to the first flight of heavier-than-air aircraft, from their tours of European and American air shows to their development of a military aircraft, to the final installation of the Kitty Hawk Flyer at the Smithsonian Institution in 1948, this book celebrates an invention that changed the world.
Composed entirely of photographs of the brothers and their aircraft, as well as such memorabilia and souvenirs as vintage postcards, posters, stereopticon images, and toys, the images in this book are drawn from the most extensive Wright Brothers collection in private hands, which includes many examples by the Wright Brothers' personal photographer, William Preston Mayfield. Published here for the first time, this extraordinary collection will also be on view in an international traveling exhibition.
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