Full name: The Wright Brothers: A Biography

Author: Fred C. Kelly Year: 1969 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780486260563 0486260569

In this fascinating, highly readable biography, Fred C. Kelly, a former newspaperman, author, and an old friend of the Wrights, tells the story of the two brilliant, dedicated, flight-obsessed bicycle mechanics from Ohio who first realized mankind's age-old dream of conquering the skies. Long considered the definitive Wright biography (the manuscript was read and approved by Orville Wright), this book recounts the Wrights' small-town boyhood, their early interest in all things mechanical, the establishment of the Wright Cycle Shop, and the complete behind-the-scenes story of how they designed, built, tested, and flew (December 1903) the first "Flyer." Enhanced with sixteen rare photographs, Mr. Kelly's engaging account avoids minute technical description, yet describes simply and clearly the technological innovations that enabled the two brothers to succeed where so many others had failed. Anyone interested in the mechanics of flight or early aviation will find this volume a splendid introduction to the Wright brothers and their epochal achievement. Similar books: Mellon by David Cannadine Carnegie by Peter Krass Seven Men by Eric Metaxas Clover Adams by Natalie Dykstra Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate Harriet Beecher Stowe by Joan D. Hedrick Burton by Byron Farwell Morgan by Jean Strouse The Rockefellers by Peter Collier The Bishop's Boys by Tom D. Crouch The People's Tycoon by Steven Watts The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell Balzac by Stefan Zweig The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca