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The Wright Brothers

by Fred C. Kelly

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  1. 1Dedication — Author’s Preface
  2. 2Prologue
  3. 3I — Boyhood
  4. 4II — Background
  5. 5III — Printing — And Bicycles
  6. 6IV — First Thoughts of Flight
  7. 7V — Gliding at Kitty Hawk
  8. 8VI — First Power Flight
  9. 9VII — After the Event
  10. 10VIII — Experiments of 1904-’05
  11. 11IX — It Still Wasn’t “News”
  12. 12X — U. S. Army Not Interested
  13. 13XI — Europe Discovers the Wrights
  14. 14XII — The Wrights in Europe
  15. 15XIII — A Deal With the U. S.
  16. 16XIV — End of Disbelief
  17. 17XV — When Wilbur Wright Won France
  18. 18XVI — Further Adventures in 1909
  19. 19XVII — In Aviation Business
  20. 20XVIII — Patent Suits
  21. 21XIX — Why the Wright Plane Was Exiled

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