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Author	Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
Title	Birdmen : the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies / Lawrence Goldstone.
Publication Info.	New York : Ballantine Books, [2014]

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	629.13 G	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	xiv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-404) and index.
Contents	Fulcrum -- Highway in the sky -- Men in the dunes -- To Kitty Hawk -- Sophomore slump -- Gas bag -- Where no man had gone before -- Patent pioneering -- The vagaries of the marketplace -- The inexorable progression of knowledge -- The first Brazilian aloft -- Langley's legacy -- Closing fast -- Vindication -- Orville and selfridge -- The toast of France -- Trading punches -- Best-laid plans -- Bowing to the inevitable -- Team sports -- Mavericks -- Faster, steeper, higher -- War birds -- Owning the sky -- The wages of righteousness -- The romance of death -- A reluctant steward -- A wisp of victory -- The grip of the spotlight -- The death of innocence.
Subject	Aeronautics -- United States -- History.
	Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912.
	Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.
	Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930.
Added Title	Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies
ISBN	9780345538031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	034553803X (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780345538048 (ebook)
	0345538048 (ebook)

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