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Birdmen: the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
Birdmen: the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
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Goldstone, Lawrence
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Ballantine Books
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[2014]
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From the Book - First edition.
Genius extinguished
Fulcrum
Highway in the sky
Men in the dunes
To Kitty Hawk
Sophomore slump
Gas bag
Where no man had gone before
Patent pioneering
The vagaries of the marketplace
The inexorable progression of knowledge
The first Brazilian aloft
Langley's legacy
Closing fast
Vindication
Orville and Selfridge
The toast of France
Trading punches
Best-laid plans
Bowing to the inevitable
Team sports
Mavericks
Faster, steeper, higher
War birds
Owning the sky
The wages of righteousness
The romance of death
A reluctant steward
A wisp of victory
The grip of the spotlight
The death of innocence.
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Aeronautics
Aeronautics -- United States -- History
Biography
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930
History
Nonfiction
Science & Technology
Wright, Orville
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
Wright, Wilbur
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
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Fried, Jonathan
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Goldstone, Lawrence
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9780345538031
034553803
9781470397401
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