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The Wright Brothers: Legendary inventors. The Entire Life Story

By: The History Hour
Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
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Why should anyone who is not interested in aviation or history be interested in the Wright brothers? What do their life and struggle have to add to the lives of the common person out there? Do world changers possibly have more in common with us than many of us realize? As you will listen to in this book, the Wright brothers encountered many challenges within their lives. The buzzwords of the business world today all encompass what the Wright brothers possessed in great abundance.

Inside, you’ll hear about:

  • Dreaming of the (propeller) blade
  • Developing the blade
  • Perfecting the blade
  • Protecting the blade
  • And much more!

The dream of flight was a lifelong pursuit for the Wright brothers. Their first experience with the pursuit of flight involved a child’s toy. They loved that toy and eventually broke it. How many hours did the brothers put into fixing that toy before achieving their goal of allowing it to fly again?

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. The book ends rather abruptly, as I guess it should, when the description of their flying careers are overtaken by the court fights and setting up their manufacturing business, with little time for either flying themselves or further experimentation. Over time, other early aviators surpassed their Wright Flyers, but in truth all of them stemmed from the thousands of hours of dedicated hard work, learned knowledge, and fundamental inventions of the Wright Brothers. One of the most satisfying and edifying reads I've had in a long time.

. The book ends rather abruptly, as I guess it sho

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Wilbur and Orville Wright have gone down in history as pioneers of flight and the inventors of the first airplane. This is the story of how their mechanical interest in printing presses and bicycles led them towards finding solutions to the conundrum of flight. Find out how their methodological research and innovative ideas set them apart from other inventors, and learn about the newspaper editors and scientists’ reactions to the Wright brothers’ achievement - the slow transformation of skepticism and disbelief to amazement.

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What an excellent book on the Wright brothers and their adventures in developing the airplane. These brothers started as bicycle repairmen to creators of a "flying machine". The reader will discover their interesting adventures to Europe trying to sell their machine to the French as well as other European nations. Their challenges in getting their "flying machine" to stay aloft is exciting. One will have a different picture of what the Wright brothers went through in designing this first airplane. This book ranks as one of the best books about these USA heroes.

What an excellent book on the Wright brothers and

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Through all of this, the Wright brothers remained as they were before the world paid the most intense attention to them. They were men of few words; they were modest but knew exactly what they had accomplished; they ferociously protected their invention from imitation; they asked noone to take risks with their machines that they did not take; they were not corrupted by praise or attention. They were quintessential Americans at the turn of the last century: they worked hard to achieve their success and did something that changed so much about the world around them.

Through all of this, the Wright brothers remained

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Now I know communication was slow in the early 1900s, and photography a developing (pun intended) art and reporting/recording medium, but to have so few pictures of the process and the people and virtually no decipherable drawings or plans of both the eventual machine and the developed machines is hardly conscientious biography and history writing.

Now I know communication was slow in the early 19

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