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Excerpt from First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the AirplaneTheir mother's family represented a very different side of the American story. A native of Loudoun County, Virginia, Susan Wright was the daughter of John Gottlieb Koerner, a skilled wheelwright who had ¿ed Germany to escape conscription, and Catherine Fry, a native-born American of Swiss extraction. In 1832 the Koerners moved to Indiana, where Susan had the run of...

Excerpt from First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the AirplaneTheir mother's family represented a very different side of the American story. A native of Loudoun County, Virginia, Susan Wright was the daughter of John Gottlieb Koerner, a skilled wheelwright who had ¿ed Germany to escape conscription, and Catherine Fry, a native-born American of Swiss extraction. In 1832 the Koerners moved to Indiana, where Susan had the run of...

Aiming for the Stars explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered space exploration from the sixteenth century to the modern era. Tom D. Crouch describes space travel's emergence from the pages of science fiction into the laboratories of twentieth-century rocketeers such as Wernher von Braun, who masterminded Nazi rocket development and later became a key figure in the U.S. space program, and Sergei Korolev...

Commissioned on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary, here is the fascinating historical account of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics -- and its predecessor organizations, the American Rocket Society and The Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences -- and the significant contributions each has made to the evolution of flight. From the early struggles to create and distinguish aeronautics as a distinct profession, through the...

Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of Wright family correspondence and diaries, Tom Crouch skillfully weaves the story of the airplane's invention into the drama of a unique and unforgettable family. He ...

This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, this work focuses on the people--flamboyant and daring--who made history in the sky.

When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. This fascinating assortment of characters comes to life in "A Dream of Wings, " which explores the dreamers who blazed the path to a flying machine. 55 illustrations.

The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age-a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the practical consequences, the sheer exhilaration of flight captured the imagination. No longer bound to the surface of the earth, humans took the first steps on a journey that would eventually carry them to other worlds. Tom Crouch weaves the people, machines, and ideas of the air age into a compelling nar...