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Dawn Over Kitty Hawk
Walter J. Boyne
其他書名
The Novel of the Wright Brothers
出版
Tom Doherty Associates
, 2005-08
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Fiction / General
Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN
0765343932
9780765343932
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Owhw_kqgQN8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Walter J. Boyne, the world's foremost historian on aviation and the former director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, presents this fascinating, historically accurate, fictional account of all the cutthroat personalities who strived to be the first to take the air. Of course Wilbur and Orville Wright etched their names in history as the inventors of the airplane, but lost are their contemporaries who shared their same passion. Some spent entire lives and fortunes chasing the dream of flight, including men like the embittered Augustus Herring, the pompous Samuel Pierpont Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, who was backed by the U.S. War Department, Glenn Curtiss, the Wright Brothers most fierce competition, and even the legendary American inventor Alexander Graham Bell---after all, what these men set out accomplish would surely catapult them into fame and fortune, and drastically alter the course of history for decades to come.