Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00K30Q2JK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 249 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Erl Gould Purnell said Details about an early American aviation spat: Wright v. Curtiss. To know about the Wrights is an American birthright. To learn about Curtiss is an education about a genius innovator. Disclaimer: I'm a former Naval Aviator and my grandfather was Naval Aviator #68 who learned to fly the Curtiss F-Boat in 1916. Goldstone is a detailed writer who has obviously researched the minutia of the Wright-Curtiss conflict. On the one hand, Wilber Wright was a brilliant inventor and Orville a magnificent craftsman. Sadly, they lost si. "Just A Very Interesting Book" according to OLD1mIKE. An interesting and well written history of the developing years of Aviation and the complex relationships between the pioneers of flight. Highly recommended for someone interested in the developmental years of aviation.Includes a reasonable amount of technical information without being overwhelming. Initially, I thought it could have contained more technical details, but after few google searches and U Tube lectures on topics such as: Aspect Ratio, Truss De. History of Litigation If you are looking for the history of patent litigation in the early history of aviation, this is the book for you. It was an exciting time , but this book spends most of its time in the courtroom. The tragic hero is Wilbur Wright, who tried to patent the airplane. After being the first to achieve powered flight the Wrights turned Into the major foes of innovation in aviation. It is not a happy story.
Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. Birdmen is at once a thrilling ride through flight's wild early years and a surprising look at the battle that defined an era of American innovation. But between the Wrights and Curtiss bloomed a poisonous rivalry and a patent war so powerful that it shaped aviation in its early years and drove one of the three men to his grave. He lives on Long Island with his wife and daughter.. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most talented machinist of his day; he first became the fas