The Wright Brothers (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Carroll V. Glines
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1867–1948 but focusing on 1900–1948
- Setting: North Carolina, Ohio, Alabama, Maryland, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, The Reverend Milton Wright, Susan Catherine (Koerner) Wright, Katharine Wright, Octave Chanute, Ed Sines, Charley Taylor, Benjamin Foulois, Charles G. Abbot
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Midwest, Ohio, Brothers, Patents, Flight, Airplanes or jets, Aviation or aviators, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Pilots or pilotage, Aeronautics, Bicycles or bicycling, Engineering, Machinery, Airports
- Locales: Europe, Ohio, North Carolina, Alabama, Maryland
Form and Content
In The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Power Flight, Carroll V. Glines combines historical analysis and biography in his narrative of the invention by Wilbur and Orville Wright of the “world’s first power-driven heavier-than-air machine in which man made free, controlled, and sustained flight.” The biography is divided into ten chapters totaling approximately a hundred pages. The book also contains a table of contents, a chronology of key events, a brief list of further reading, and an index.
The book begins with an account of the Wright...
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