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Book

First to fly : how Wilbur & Orville Wright invented the airplane

Call Number

  • J 920 BUSB (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Crown, 2002.

Physical Description

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 x 30 cm.

Summary

A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.

Notes

"A Madison Press Book."

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