Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention - Peter L. Jakab - 1990 Smithsonian Institute Press - Paperback

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Exploring the numerous experiments that led to Wilbur and Orville Wright's momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, Peter

L. Jakab offers a clear, concise statement of precisely what the Wrights accomplished and how they did it. He draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, sketches, photographs, and reconstructions of their aerodynamic experiments to show how the Wright brothers visualized concrete solutions to difficult technical problems that had baffled the best-trained scientists and engineers for over a century.”