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Flying Machines

How the Wright Brothers Soared

by Benjamin A. Wilgus
Molly Brooks
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A National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Books of 2017

Take to the skies with Flying Machines!
Follow the famous aviators from their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, to the fields of North Carolina where they were to make their famous flights. In an era of dirigibles and hot air balloons, the Wright Brothers were among the first innovators of heavier than air flight. But in the hotly competitive international race toward flight, Orville and Wilbur were up against a lot more than bad weather. Mechanical failures, lack of information, and even other aviators complicated the Wright Brothers' journey. Though they weren't as wealthy as their European counterparts, their impressive achievements demanded attention on the international stage. Thanks to their carefully recorded experiments and a healthy dash of bravery, the Wright Brothers' flying machines took off.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Science Comics

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 23, 2017

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781250169419
      • File size: 6 KB
    Kindle restrictions

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.1
    • Lexile® Measure: 850
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 3-5

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2017
      Gr 5-8-This graphic account of the Wright brothers' achievement skimps on biographical details but tells a grand tale of invention, demonstrating how systematic research and experimentation-punctuated with occasional flashes of brilliant insight-can really pay off. Serving as narrator, interviewer, and cheerleader, Orville and Wilbur's younger sister Katharine squires readers from her brothers' childhood encounter with a small rubber band powered -helicoptere- invented by Alphonse Penaud through their final triumph, then swoops through a quick history of later aviation, with particular attention to Englishman Frank Whittle's work on turbojets in World War II. She pauses at appropriate points to survey contemporaneous aeronautical progress in France and elsewhere. She also delivers lucid explanations of Newton's laws of motion, aerodynamics, and other significant scientific principles, as well as full, exact specs for each of the Wrights' gliders and powered aircraft. (The small panels of brown and gold color art give way to more freely organized pages of carefully detailed monochrome diagrams and drawings.) Along with nods to many of aviation's other early pioneers, Wilgus and Brooks close with a profile of Katharine Wright herself. VERDICT Inspirational reading for budding middle grade inventors and engineers-valuable for its broad picture of aviation's early history and for providing specifics about the technical problems the Wright brothers faced and solved.-John Peters, Children's Literature Consultant, New York

      Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2017
      Science, technology, and biography mix in this volume. The narrative covers the Wright Brothers' lives and inventions, their contemporaries and competitors, the science of flight, and aviation technology. The comic-book art and format lends a lighthearted feel, but the graphic flow is occasionally broken as the more technical content is conveyed in text- and diagram-heavy sections. Reading list. Glos.

      (Copyright 2017 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
Kindle restrictions

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.1
  • Lexile® Measure:850
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-5

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