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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 & TechnologyFiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / General
ISBN07653439329780765343932
URLhttp://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.