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Unlocking the Sky: Glen Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
de Shulman, Seth
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060196335
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196332
- Librería
-
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
HarperCollins, 2002. First edition; first printing. (J-6.). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Sinopsis
Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss and his airplane out of the sky and off the market. Ultimately, however, it was Curtiss's innovations and designs, not the Wright brothers', that served as the model for the modern airplane.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Armadillo Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 720110296
- Título
- Unlocking the Sky: Glen Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
- Autor
- Shulman, Seth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060196335
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196332
- Editorial
- HarperCollins
- Lugar de publicación
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
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Armadillo Books
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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