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Autobiography
By: Charles A. Lindbergh
Date: 1927
Source: Lindbergh, Charles A. We. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927, 224–226.
About the Author: Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974) was born in in Detroit, Michigan. He enrolled in an Army flying school in Texas in 1924, becoming an airmail pilot in 1926. That year he received funding to compete for the $25,000 prize for the first nonstop flight between New York City and Paris. His flight the next year brought him world celebrity. Afterwards, Lindbergh flew across the United States, lecturing and making personal appearance to promote air travel. Thereafter he served as consultant to Ford Motor Company, United Aircraft Corporation, Pan American World Airway, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He died in 1974 in Hawaii.
Introduction
Flight has intrigued humans since antiquity, but only in the...
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1920's Science and Technology Primary Sources
- "The Airplane in Catalpa Sphinx Control"
- My Life and Work
- "The Present Status of Eugenical Sterilization in the United States"
- "The Electron and the Light-Quant from the Experimental Point of View"
- "Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub"
- Chromosomes and Genes
- Winged Defense
- Journal Entry, May 5, 1926
- "X-Rays as a Branch of Optics"
- We
- Coming of Age in Samoa
- "The Exploration of Space"
- Dynamo
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
