{"product_id":"wright-brothers-and-the-invention-of-the-aerial-age","title":"Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the hundredth anniversary of the Wright Brothers? history-making flight at Kitty Hawk  world attention is once again turning to these intrepid American inventors. Written by two of the world?s leading experts on the Wrights  The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age will provide a definitive  richly illustrated look at the lives of the brothers and their world-changing invention. Wilbur and Orville were two eccentric owners of a bicycle shop in the heartland. But it was invention  engineering  and the new possibilities of manned flight that obsessed them. In just three years  they went from designing and flying a glider and creating a test wind tunnel to Wilbur?s history-making moments in December 1903 above the dunes at Kitty Hawk  North Carolina. In moving prose  Crouch and Jakab explain the Wrights? achievements and the moments of their great successes  and they paint a masterful personal portrait of the two sometimes erratic  genius personalities (never married  the brothers lived together all their lives)  and  most important  the world of pioneering aviation in which they operated. Poignant archival photographs throughout the book capture that world  where ox carts and airplanes co-existed and where two determined brothers from Dayton were celebrated by presidents and kings. But the most poignant of all the images remains that of an airplane  almost kite-like in its simplicity  struggling skyward from the dunes at Kitty Hawk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958136074293,"sku":"ByrdShop_0792269853","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780792269854.jpg?v=1770365764","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wright-brothers-and-the-invention-of-the-aerial-age","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}