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.
year: 1991, 1992, 1993
call number/section: 920, 629.13, 92, 1000, 921, 472
subjects: wright, orville, 1871-1948, juvenile literature, wright, wilbur, 1867-1912, aeronautics, united states, juvenile literature, biography, newbery, exploration, juvenile films, inventors, juvenile films, airplanes
Editions
Freedman, Russell
Holiday House (1991)
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Schools: 76
Freedman, Russell
American School Publishers (1992)
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.
Schools: 0
Freedman, Russell
Scholastic (1993)
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Schools: 1
Freedman, Russell
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Schools: 2