Orville and Wilbur Wright

"[Profiles the lives and achievements of] Orville and Wilbur Wright ... Inspired by a fierce worldwide competition to become the first to invent a machine that could fly and be controlled by a passenger, the brothers invented several prototypes. At last on December 17, 1903, the pioneering flight was achieved. The brothers went on to found the Wright Company, which built airplanes for the rising new industry of commercial aviation"--Provided by publisher.