This activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat that forever changed the world. At a time when most people still hadn’t ridden in an automobile, Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first
Flying bicycles: How the Wright brothers invented the airplane
β Scribed by Philip N. Johnson-Laird
- Book ID
- 106570058
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 291 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1593-7879
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