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BIOGRAPHY
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Combs, Harry, Kill Devil Hill, Englewood, Colorado,
Ternstyle Press, 1979.
Crouch, Tom D. The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville
Wright, New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
Culick, Fred E. C. and Dunmore, Spencer On Great White Wings,
Toronto, Ontario, Madison Press Books, 2001
Fisk, Fred C. and Todd, Marlin W. The Wright Brothers: From Bicycle
to Biplane, West Milton, OH: Miami Graphics Services, 1990.
Hallion, Richard P., editor. The Wright Brothers: Heirs of
Prometheus, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville, New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1987.
Kelly, Fred C., The Wright Brothers: A Biography, New
York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1943.
Kirk, Stephen, First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North
Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, John F. Blair
Publisher, 1995.
Miller, Ivonette Wright, Wright Reminiscences, Dayton,
Ohio, The Air Force Museum Foundation, 1978.
Moolman, Valerie, The Road To Kitty Hawk, Alexandria,
Virginia, Time-Life Books, Inc., 1980
Renstrom, Arthur George, Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Chronology
Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright,
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1975.
Tobin, James, To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the
Great Race For Flight, Free Press, New York, 2003Wright, Orville, How We Invented the Airplane, An Illustrated
History, edited by Fred C. Kelly. New York: Dover Publications,
1988.
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters
of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Fred C. Kelly, New York,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., 1951.
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, The Papers of Wilbur & Orville
Wright, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Marvin W. McFarland. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.
Young, Rosamond, Twelve Seconds to the Moon: A Story of the
Wright Brothers, Dayton, Ohio, The Journal Herald, 1978.
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Books for Young People
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Berliner, Don. Before the Wright Brothers, Minneapolis, MN:
Lerner Publications, 1990.
Marquardt, Max. Wilbur, Orville & The Flying Machine,
Milwaukee, WI: Raintree Publishers, 1989.
Parker, Steve. The Wright Brothers and Aviation, New York:
Chelsea House Publications, 1996.
Sobol, Donald J. The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, New York:
Scholastic, 1987.
Sproule, Anna. The Wright Brothers, Great Britain: Exley
Publishers, Ltd., 1996.
Woods, Andrew. Young Orville and Wilbur Wright: First to Fly,
Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1992.
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COLLECTIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
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Geibert, Ronald R. and Malishenko, Tucker, Early Flight:
1900-1911, Dayton, Ohio, Landfall Press, 1984.
Geibert, Ronald R. and Nolan, Patrick B., Kitty Hawk and
Beyond: The Wright Brothers and the Early Years of Aviation,
Dayton, Ohio, Wright State University Press, 1990.
Freedman, Russel, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the
Airplane, New York, Holiday House, 1991.
Wescott, Lynn and Degen, Paula, Wind and Sand: The Story of the
Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, Eastern National, 1999
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PAMPHLETS
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East, Omega G., Wright Brothers National Memorial, Washington,
DC: National Park Service, 1961.
Gibbs-Smith, Charles, The Wright Brothers: A Brief Account of Their
Work, London. Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1963.
U.S. Army. Signal Corps, Reproduction of contract with Wright
Brothers, 10 Feb 1908.
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TECHNICAL WORKS
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Garber, Lester W., The Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation,
Crowood Press, Wiltshire, England, 2005
Hobbs, Leonard S., The Wright Brothers Engines and Their Design,
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1971.
Jakab Peter L. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and
the Process of Invention, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1990.
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RELATED WORKS
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DuFour, H. R., Charles E. Taylor: The Wright Brothers
Mechanician, Dayton, Ohio, Howard R. DuFour, 1997.
Jakab, Peter L. and Young, Rick, The Published Writings of
Wilbur and Orville Wright, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian
Institution Press, 2000.
Meyer, Robert B., editor, Langley's Aero Engine of 1903, Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Prendergast, Curtis, The First Aviators, Alexandria,
Virginia, Time-Life Books, Inc., 1981
Short, Simine, Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the
Transportation Revolution, University of Illinois Press, 2011/
Stoff, Joshua, Picture History of Early Aviation, 1903-1913,
New York, Dover Publications, 1996.
Wright, Bishop Milton, Diaries: 1857-1917, Dayton,
Ohio, Wright State University, 1999.
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VIDEOS
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The Age of Flight: Kitty Hawk, MPI Home Video, 1990.
Biography: Wilbur and Orville: Dreams of Flying,
A&E Home Video, 1994
Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention,
David Garrigus Productions, 2003. Note: The DVD set includes the
mini-series Machines of the Wright Brothers.
The American Experience: The Wright Stuff, Nancy Porter
Productions and WGBH Education Foundation, 1996.
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