One Hundred Years of Flight 1903-2003

Print Books

The Wright Brothers

Flyers: In Search of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Noah Adams. 629.1300922 A216f

To Conquer the Air: The Wright Bothers and the Great Race for Flight. James Tobin. 629.1300922 T629t

Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age. Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab. 629.1309 C952w

Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Fred Howard. 629.1309 W954YH

Kill Devil Hill: Discovering the Secret of the Wright Brothers. Harry Combs, with Martin Caidin, forward by Neil Armstrong. 629.1309 W953YC

Wright Brothers, Fathers of Flight. John R. McMahon. 629.1309 W953YM

The Wright Flyer: An Engineering Perspective. Howard S. Wolko. 629.133343 W949

The Road to Kitty Hawk. Valerie Moolman. 629.1309 M817r

Aviation History

The Pioneers of Flight. Phil Scott. 629.1309P662

The First Aviators. Curtis Predergrast. 629.1309 P926f

Women Aloft. Valerie Moolman. 629.13088 M817w

The Pathfinders. David Nevin. 629.1309 N526p

Two Hundred Years of Flight in America: A Bicentennial Survey. Eugene M. Emme. 629.10973 T974

Gyro!: The Life and Times of Lawrence Sperry. William Wyatt Davenport. 629.1309 S751Yd

Reconsidering a Century of Flight. Roger D. Launius and Janet R. Daly Bednarek. 629.1330973 R311

History of Aviation. John W.R. Taylor and Kenneth Munson. 629.13 H673 1978

A Century of Flight. Bill Gunston. 629.13 G976c

The Concise History of Aviation. Paolo Matricardi. 629.1309 M433c

The Aeronauts. Donald Dale Jackson. 629.1309 J12a

Astronautics History

Space Travel: A History. Wernher Von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway, III. 629.409 V945h 1985

History of Rocketry and Space Travel. Wernher Von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway, III. 629.409 V945h

Life in Space. George Constable. 629.409 L722

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E-Books

The Mastery of the Air. William J. Claxton

Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War. Frederick A. Talbot.

The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation. John Mackenzie Bacon.

The Aeroplane Speaks. Horatio Barber.

Aeroplanes. J.S. Zerbe.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding. by Bill Lane and Azriela Jaffe.

Flying Machines: Construction and Operation; A Practical Book which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship. W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell, with introductory chapter by Octave Chanute.

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Web Sites

Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company and Museum of Pioneer Aviation

Wright Brothers National Memorial - from the National Park Service

Wright Brothers Photographs - a collection of photographs from the Library of Congress, taken by the Wright Brothers from 1900-1911

Reliving the Wright Way - A collection simulations, lesson plans, activities and presentation from NASA

The Wright Flyer Project - An organization dedicate to rebuilding and flying a replica of the Wright Flyer

PBS's "The Wright Stuff" - An American Experience program

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Page created on 01 December, 2003, by Jennifer Paliatka,
Assistant Reference Librarian, Elmhurst College