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Combs, Harry. Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Crouch, Tom D. The Bishop's Boys. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. ---. First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2002. --- and Peter L. Jakab. The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2003. Culick, Fred E. C., and Spencer Dunmore. On Great White Wings: The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight. New York: Hyperion, 2001. Geibert, Ronald R., and Patrick B. Nolan. Kitty Hawk and Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation: A Photographic History. Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University Press, 1990. Hallion, Richard P., ed. The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus. Washington, D.C.: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Heppenheimer, T. A. First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2003. Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1998. Jakab, Peter L. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. --- and Rick Young, eds. The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Kelly, Fred C. Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951. ---. The Wright Brothers: A Biography. 1943. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Kidder, Chris. Aloft at Last: How the Wright Brothers Made History. Nags Head, N.C.: Nags Head Art, 2002. Kirk, Stephen. First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J. F. Blair, 1995. McFarland, Marvin W., ed. The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: including the Chanute-Wright letters and the Papers of Octave Chanute. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Miller, Ivonette Wright, comp. Wright Reminiscences. N.p.: Miller, 1978. Renstrom, Arthur G. Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1968. ---. Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Chronology. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1975. Tobin, James. To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. New York: Free Press, 2003. Walsh, John Evangelist. One Day at Kitty Hawk: The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers and the Airplane. New York: Crowell, 1975. Wescott, Lynanne, and Paula Degen. Wind and Sand: The Story of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. Wolko, Howard S. The Wright Flyer: An Engineering Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Wright, Milton. Diaries, 1857-1917. Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University, 1999. Wright, Orville. How We Invented the Airplane: An Illustrated History. Edited by Fred C. Kelly. New York: Dover Publications, 1988. |
Children's Books |
Buller, Jon. The Wright Brothers Take Off. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2003. Busby, Peter. First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane. New York: Crown, 2002. Carson, Mary Kay. The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane - 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003. Collins, Mary. Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003. Edwards, Pamela Duncan. The Wright Brothers. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2003. Ford, Carin T. The Wright Brothers: Heroes of Flight. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2003. Freedman, Russell. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane. New York: Holiday House, 1991. Gaines, Ann. Orville and Wilbur Wright. Vero Beach, Fla.: Rourke Books, 2002. Hudson, Margaret. The Wright Brothers. Des Plaines, Ill.: Heinemann Interactive Library, 1999. Jenner, Caryn. First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers. New York: DK Publishing, 2003. Krensky, Stephen. Taking Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers. New York: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000. Martin, Michael. The Wright Brothers. San Diego: Lucent Books/Thomson Gale, 2003. Maurer, Richard. The Wright Sister. Brookfield, Conn., Roaring Brook Press, 2003. Mayo, Gretchen Will. The Wright Brothers. Milwaukee, Wis.: World Almanac, 2003. McCourt, Lisa. A Dream to Fly: The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. Mahwah, N.J.: Troll/Bridgewater Books, 2003. Old, Wendie C. To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers. New York: Clarion Books, 2002. ________. The Wright Brothers: Inventors of the Airplane. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2000. Price Hossell, Karen. Kitty Hawk: The Flight of the Wright Brothers. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003. Ryan, Bernard. The Wright Brothers: Inventors of the Airplane. New York: Franklin Watts, 2003. Santella, Andrew. The Wright Brothers: Inventors and Aviators. Chanhassen, Minn.: Child's World, 2003. Schaefer, Lola. M. The Wright Brothers. Mankato, Minn.: Pebble Books, 2000. Sproule, Anna. The Wright Brothers: The Birth of Modern Aviation. Woodbridge, Conn.: Blackbirch Press, 1999. Tate, Suzanne. Helping the Wright Brothers: A Tale of First Flight Helpers. Nags Head, N.C.: Nags Head Art, 1999. Wyborny, Sheila. The Wright Brothers. San Diego: Kidhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2003. Yolen, Jane. My Brothers' Flying Machine. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. |
Related Manuscript Collections in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division |
Archives of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Papers of Henry Harley Arnold, 1903-1989 Papers of Octave Chanute, 1807-1955 Papers of Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, 1898-1966 Papers of A. Hildebrandt, 1826-1940 Papers of Frank Samuel Lahm, ca. 1850-1931 Papers of Grover Cleveland Loening, 1900-1975 |
Related Web Sites |
Flights of Inspiration. The Franklin Institute Online.
National Air and Space Museum
To Fly is Everything: Virtual Museum Covering the Invention of the Airplane.
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission.
The Wright Brothers. Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village: Online Exhibits.
Wright Brothers. Special Collections & Archives, Wright State University Libraries.
Wright Brothers Collection: Images. Dayton Metro Library.
Wright Brothers National Memorial. National Park Service.
The Wright Brothers: Pioneers in Aviation. Smithsonian Archives, Smithsonian
Scrapbook: Letters, Diaries & Photographs from the Smithsonian Archives.
Wright Flight. PBS Kids: WayBack
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