James Tobin

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To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for FlightPaperback, 3 May 2004

To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
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Print Length
448 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Free Press
Date Published
3 May 2004
ISBN-10
0743255364
ISBN-13
9780743255363

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James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.

For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths--Langley's toward oblivion, the Wrights' toward the heavens--though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.

Product Details

Author:
James Tobin
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
3 May 2004
Dimensions:
22.38 x 13.31 x 2.92 cm
ISBN-10:
0743255364
ISBN-13:
9780743255363
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Weight:
585.13 gm

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