Table of Contents

Contents: The Wright brothers; Early experiments: 1899-1901; The mastery of glider control: 1902; The first powered flights: 1903; Improved power-flying: 1904; The first practical aeroplane: 1905; The patent and the flight control systems; The standard Wright type A: 1908-9; Wilbur Wright in France: 1908; Orville Wright in America: 1908; The Wrights in 1909; Transition and consolidation: 1909-10; End of an epoch: 1910-11; The influence of the Wright brothers: 1902-9; Notes; Index.

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Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith