First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright

James Tobin

First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright

James Tobin

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First came Samuel Langley, head of the Smithsonian Institution, the odds-on favourite to fly first. Under intense public scrutiny, his ponderous aerodrome dropped into the icy Potomac River like a handful of mortar just nine days before the Wright...

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