The Wright Brothers
ISBN: 1476728755
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sveit
· 2019-07-15
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Check out the book The Wright Brothers by David McCullough[1]. You will see that they are anything but tinkerers, but more the founders of aeronautical engineering.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1...
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A few years back I read David McCullough's biography of the Wright Brothers which told the same story: https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1...
This site cites a couple of the pre-Wright naysayers: https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...