Visions of a Flying Machine by Peter L Jakab

Visions of a Flying Machine by Peter L Jakab

This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had attempted to solve for a century.

Step by step, the book details the path of invention (including the important wind tunnel experiments of 1901) which culminated in the momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first major milestone in aviation history. Enhanced by original photos, designs, drawings, notebooks, letters and diaries of the Wright Brothers, Visions of a Flying Machine is a fascinating book that will be of interest to engineers, historians, enthusiasts, or anyone interested in the process of invention.

The Published Works of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004) was co-edited by Peter L.Jakab, curator of early aviation at the National Air and Space Museum. He currently resides in Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9781560987482
ISBN 10	1560987480
Title	Visions of a Flying Machine
Author	Peter L Jakab
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Smithsonian Books
Year published	1997-04-17
Number of pages	282
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