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020 _a9781633884588 (hardcover)
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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aTL540.W7
_bH392 2018
100 1 _aHazelgrove, William Elliott,
_d1959-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWright brothers, wrong story :
_bhow Wilbur Wright solved the problem of manned flight /
_cWilliam Hazelgrove.
260 _c©2018
264 1 _aAmherst, New York :
_bPrometheus Books,
_c©2018
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a320 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
_btxt
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
_bn
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
_bnc
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index.
505 0 _aThe Wright myth -- Preflight -- The biographer -- The letter 1948 -- The murderer 1884 -- Steam bugs 1896 -- Typhoid 1896 -- Inventors 1900 -- School of one 1900 -- Flight -- The pilgrim 1900 -- The Wright sister 1900 -- Kill Devil Hills-October 18, 1900 -- The mentor 1901 -- Dangerous times 1901 -- Return to Kitty Hawk 1901 -- Wilbur unleashed 1901 -- Tunnel vision 1901 -- The Smithsonian 1902 -- The movable rudder 1902 -- United States patent office 1903 -- The Western Society of Engineers 1903 -- The great embarrassment 1903 -- Great things-September 23, 1903 -- The photograph-December 17, 1903 -- Landings -- Flyers or liars 1906 -- Death in the sky-September 17, 1908 -- Return to Eden 1908 -- The injunction 1910 -- Warped by the desire of great wealth 1911 -- Final flight 1912 -- The great flood 1914 -- To fly again 1914 -- Hammondsport, Indiana 1915 -- Middle of the Atlantic Ocean 1928 -- A test of wills 1930 -- The lone eagle 1934 -- The battle of Britain 1940 -- The authorized biography 1943 -- Washington, DC 1943 -- Mabel Beck 1948 -- Wright brothers, wrong story.
520 _a"This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright Brothers' myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first 'flying machine'."--Provided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aWright, Orville,
_d1871-1948.
600 1 0 _aWright, Wilbur,
_d1867-1912.
600 1 0 _aHaskell, Katharine Wright,
_d1874-1929.
650 0 _aAeronautics
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aInventors
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAeronautics
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft
655 0 _aPrint books.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aHazelgrove, William Elliott, 1959- author.
_tWright brothers, wrong story
_dAmherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018
_z9781633884595
_w(DLC) 2018033863
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