The Wright Brothers Author:Fred C. Kelly On December 17, 1903, in a fragile little plane which they built at home for less than $1,000.00, Wilber and Orville Wright made the first powered flights in the history of mankind - and opened the Air Age. — Why did these two brothers, mechanics by trade, succeed where trained scientists - working with unlimited funds and the backing of great in... more »stitutions - had repeatedly failed?
In the biography, authorized by Orville Wright, Fred Kelly separates fact from legend and tr-creates the dramatic achievements of the two men, self-taught inventors, who solved the "impossible" problem of flight.« less