wright, wilbur

Focuses on the childhood of the Wright brothers and the inventiveness they displayed from their earliest days.

A biography of the two inventors whose 1903 powered, controlled flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, made history.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.

A look at the lives of the Wright brothers, from their childhood interest in flight, through their study of successful gliders and other flying machines, to their triumphs at Kitty Hawk and beyond.

A brief biography of Orville and Wilbur Wright that profiles their lives and work which includes their interest in powered flight and invention of the airplane.

Chronicles the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright, discussing their childhood in the midwest, dreams of flying, efforts to build the world's first successful airplane, and other related topics.

Recounts the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, from their childhood, tinkering and building their own printing press, to owning the Wright Cycle Company, to inventing the world's first powered, controlled airplane. The self-trained engineers worked side by side to solve the most complicated problems in the history of flight.

The Wright brothers solve some of the problems of flight which the Wrong brothers are unable to solve.