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The Wright brothers : nose-diving into history / Erik Slader and Ben Thompson ; illustrations by Tim Foley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Slader, Erik. Epic fails ; Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 120 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250150554
  • 1250150558
  • 9781250150561
  • 1250150566
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Contents:
Failure at Kitty Hawk -- Learning to fall -- The problem with gravity -- Orville and Wilbur -- Destiny calls -- The first attempt -- A flight of failure -- If at first you don't succeed -- Fourth time's a charm -- It's a bird, it's a biplane! -- The Wright stuff, pioneers of the sky.
Summary: Describes the lives of the two American brothers who designed, built, and flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft to fly successfully, detailing the many mishaps and misadventures that preceded it.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 629.13 S631 Available 33111008907657
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 629.13 S631 Available 33111009231453
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success.

Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering--they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight--their success was hard-earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives involved.) In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single twelve-second flight!

In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take readers through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.

The Epic Fails series takes a humorous and unexpected view of history, exploring the surprising stories behind a variety of groundbreaking discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations, illustrating how many of mankind's biggest successes are in fact the result of some pretty epic failures.

This title has Common Core connections.

Describes the lives of the two American brothers who designed, built, and flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft to fly successfully, detailing the many mishaps and misadventures that preceded it.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-115) and index.

Failure at Kitty Hawk -- Learning to fall -- The problem with gravity -- Orville and Wilbur -- Destiny calls -- The first attempt -- A flight of failure -- If at first you don't succeed -- Fourth time's a charm -- It's a bird, it's a biplane! -- The Wright stuff, pioneers of the sky.

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