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Title:
The Wright brothers [sound recording] / David McCullough.
ISBN:
9781442376083
Personal Author:
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015.
Physical Description:
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact disc.
Contents:
1. Beginnings -- 2. The dream takes hold -- 3. Where the winds blow -- 4. Unyielding resolve -- 5. December 17, 1903 -- 6. Out at Huffman prairie -- 7. A capital exhibit A -- 8. Triumph at Le Mans -- 9. The crash -- 10. A time like no other -- 11. Causes for celebration -- Epilogue.
Summary:
On December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why? David McCullough tells the extraordinary and truly American story of the two brothers who changed the world.
Performer:
Read by the author.
OCLC Number:
ocn899153268
Availability:
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