To Conquer the air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight [Audiobook] download free by James Tobin
- Listen audiobook: To Conquer the air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
- Author: James Tobin
- Release date: 2004/6/10
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780743255363
- Rating: 9.68 of 10
- Votes: 168
- Review by: Paityn Strauss
- Review rating: 8.23 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/14
- Duration: 5H35M52S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WAV, Musepack, MP3, MPEG4, WMA, MPEG-4 DST (compression RAR, TZO, ZIP, TAR.BZ, CBZ, BZ2, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 448
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M45S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths-Langley's toward oblivion, the Wrights' toward the heavens-though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Engineering & Technology, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Aircraft, History Of The Americas, Aerospace & Aviation Technology
- Download servers: Hotfile, Torrent, BitShare, 1337x, Seafile, FreakShare. Compressed in RAR, TZO, ZIP, TAR.BZ, CBZ, BZ2, TAR.XZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 23.90 USD
- Dimensions: 133x224x29mm
- Weight: 585g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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