The Bishop's boys : a life of Wilbur and Orville Wright /
An account of how the two inventors were guided by their father, the years leading to the triumph of practical flight, and the death of Orville in 1948.
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
©1989.
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Table of Contents:
- Taking up the cross
- Milton and Susan
- The preacher's kids
- Moving on
- Times of trial
- The ties that bind
- A business for brothers
- Bicycles built by two
- Home fires
- The year of the flying machines
- Octave Chanute
- Windmills of the mind
- A fractious horse
- Kitty Hawk, O Kitty
- Not within a thousand years
- Tunnel vision
- All doubts resolved
- Europe discovers the Wrights
- Success
- The Prairie Patch
- A machine of practical utility
- Fliers or liars
- Rival wings
- Wealth and fame
- The return to Kitty Hawk
- The unveiling
- Fort Myer
- Pomp and circumstance
- The Wright Company
- Of politics and patents
- The Montebank game
- A short life
- The end of an era
- Carrying on alone
- The Smithsonian feud
- Of men and monuments
- The final chapter.