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The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History

The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History

Foley, Tim
Thompson, Ben
Slader, Erik

Paperback

Series: Epic Fails, Book 1

BiographyScience & NatureTransportation

Publisher Price: $11.99

ISBN10: 1250150566
ISBN13: 9781250150561
Publisher: Roaring Brook Pr
Published: Jul 10 2018
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English

A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic failures the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success.

Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering--they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight--their success was hard-earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives involved.) In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single twelve-second flight!

In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take readers through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.

The Epic Fails series takes a humorous and unexpected view of history, exploring the surprising stories behind a variety of groundbreaking discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations, illustrating how many of mankind's biggest successes are in fact the result of some pretty epic failures.

This title has Common Core connections.

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