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Learning To Fly: The Untold Story Of How The Wright Brothers Learned To Be The World's First Aeronautical Engineers, Daniel Lawrence Slusser
Learning To Fly: The Untold Story Of How The Wright Brothers Learned To Be The World's First Aeronautical Engineers, Daniel Lawrence Slusser
Master's Theses
This paper examines the education, events, and experiences of the Wright brothers in order to determine how they developed the necessary skills to engineer the first viable aircraft. Without high school diplomas, and with no advanced formal education, the Wright brothers were able to develop aircraft that far exceeded the capabilities of aircraft designed and built by professional engineers that had worked on the problem of flight for much longer and with substantially larger research budgets. I argue that the Wright brothers’ success resulted from their experiences in the printing and bicycle industries as well as their formal and informal …
Landscape Imaging Of The Southeast Aegean Sea, Michael L. Brennan, Tufan Turanli, Bridget Buxton, Katherine L. Croff Bell, Christopher N. Roman, Meko Kofahl, Orkan Koyagasioglu, Daniel Whitesell, Thomas Chamberlain, Richard Sullivan, Robert Ballard
Landscape Imaging Of The Southeast Aegean Sea, Michael L. Brennan, Tufan Turanli, Bridget Buxton, Katherine L. Croff Bell, Christopher N. Roman, Meko Kofahl, Orkan Koyagasioglu, Daniel Whitesell, Thomas Chamberlain, Richard Sullivan, Robert Ballard
Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications
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