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The Wright Brothers David McCullough documents the Wright brothers’ engineering triumph. The book does justice to its story, and the story is every bit as good as one would hope, given the technical and cultural impact of flight. I especially liked the parts about their time in Kitty Hawk, which was more or less wilderness at that point. McCullough also does a great job dispelling the myth that the Wright brothers were simple mechanics who tinkered their way to success. They were serious businessmen, serious engineers, and serious scientists. They also possessed a species of focus and drive that we now associate with successful founders. I never realized how slow the world was to accept the reality of the Wright Flyer. It was such a different world back then. Strongly recommended. This and Bill Bryson’s 1927 book would make a great one-two punch. Five stars for its class.
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July
@july
Loved this book!
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Adam
@adam-
...and like that, this book flew into my must read pile. Thanks for the break down.
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basement5k.⌐◨-◨ 🟡
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if you are a fan of David McCullough you should read "The Pioneers" if you haven't already - I may be more connected to it more than others because I lived in the First Settlement in the Northwest Territory(south east Ohio) that the book talks about quite a bit.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
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I highly recommend visiting North Carolina too! Its beautiful!
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Strange Attractor
@strangeattractor
I've read McCullough's book, and I prefer the book written by the Wright Brothers themselves, available on Project Gutenberg. Until I read it, I had no idea that a key insight they had was that the published engineering tables for how air behaves were wrong, and they had to make their own. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25420
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Zach
@zherring
I loved this one. I was also impressed by how little drama there was between the two brothers. I think I was just coming off of a bunch of Great Men of History books, I was expecting more of that, but they were so pragmatic and did it for the sheer love of the game. Game. Huge respect to them. Ugh, just talking about makes me want to reread!
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