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The Wright Brothers

The Dramatic Story Behind the Legend
Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2016
Simon & Schuster Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4711-5038-8 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the brothers who taught the world how to fly.
​The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.

Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?

David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing.

In this thrilling book, McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.

David McCullough twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other acclaimed books are 1776, Brave Companions, The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge and The Greater Journey. He was the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. He died in August 2022, aged 89.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 x 16pp b-w plates
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
Technik Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10 1-4711-5038-0 / 1471150380
ISBN-13 978-1-4711-5038-8 / 9781471150388
Zustand Neuware
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