Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

Arnold, Henry H. Bill Bruce and the Pioneer Aviators.
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1928, 250 pp. (His
Aviators Series).
Includes four chapters dealing with Wrights titled
The Wright Flyer, Wilbur Wright, The
Unwelcome Visitor, and The Grant s Tomb Flight,
pp. 24—56.
Bailey, Carolyn S. Tag-Along Boy; Orville Wright. In
her A Candle for Your Cake: Twenty-Four Birthday
Stories of Famous Men and Women, Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott, 1952, pp. 161—168.
Barksdale, Lena. Wilbur and Orville. In her Daring
Riders and Other Tales of Young America. Illustrated by
Frank Nichols, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, pp.
79—86.
Berliner, Don. Aviation: Reaching for the Sky.
Minneapolis: Oliver Press, Inc., 1997, 144 pp., +illus.
Short chapters on selected pioneers in the history of
aviation and their aircraft, for older children. One
chapter is devoted to the Wright brothers and the airplane
but other chapters also contain scattered references
to the Wright brothers. Includes photographs, a
chronology, a glossary, and an index.
. Before the Wright Brothers. Minneapolis:
Lerner Publications Company, 1990, 72 pp., +illus.
Brief account for older children, of the history of
flight culminating in the first successful flight of the
Wright brothers in Dec. 1903. Well-illustrated;
includes an index and suggestions for further reading.
Bixby, William. The Wright Brothers: Men with Wings.
In his Great Experimenters, New York: David McKay,
1964, pp. 105—131.
Bolton, Sarah. The Wright Brothers. In her Lives of Poor
Boys Who Became Famous. Illustrated by Constance
Joan Naar, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
1962, pp. 299—320, +illus.
Included also in earlier 1947 printing.
Boyne, Walter J. Smithsonian Book of Flight for Young
People. New York: Atheneum, 1988, 128 pp., +illus.
History of flight for secondary school students,
illustrated by numerous photographs and paintings.
Briefly discusses the Wright brothers contribution
and argues that the Wright brothers insistence on protecting
their patent rights, in effect, hampered the
development of aviation in the United States and gave
the advantage to European competition prior to the
First World War. Includes an index.
Juvenile Publications
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Byrd, Richard E. Our First Air Pioneers. Boy s Life, July
1928, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 8—9, +illus.
Published also in Mathiews, Franklin K., ed.,
Flying High; a Book of Aviation Stories and Model
Airplanes for Boys, New York: Grosset & Dunlap,
1930, pp. 16—21.
Catherall, Arthur. Wilbur and Orville Wright: Conquerors
of the Air. In Duthie, Eric, ed. Children s Book of Famous
Lives, London: Odhams, 1958, pp. 407—416.
Charnley, Mitchell V. The Boys Life of the Wright
Brothers. New York and London: Harper & Brothers,
[1928], 291 pp., +illus.
Slightly different version of a series of articles originally
published in the American Boy, August-
November, 1928, with title They Gave the World
Wings; the Story of the Wright Brothers, see below.
Material for this book has come largely from the
few published writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
and the miscellaneous writings about them (p. v.)
. They Gave the World Wings; the Story of the
Wright Brothers. Illustrated by Ernest Fuhr. American
Boy, Aug. 1928, vol. 29, no. 10 pp. 11—13, 46—47; Sept.,
no. 11, pp. 6—7, 30, 32, 37; Oct., no. 12, pp. 22—24, 63;
Nov., vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 13—14, 32—34, +illus.
Clark, Leonard. The Wright Brothers. In his When They
Were Children, New York: Roy Publishers, 1964, pp.
113—120.
Claudy, Carl H. Two American Conquerors of the Air. St.
Nicholas, July 1909, vol. 36, pp. 785—787, +illus.
Claxton, William J. The Wright Brothers and Their
Secret Experiments, the Wright Biplane, and How the
Wrights Launched Their Biplane. In his The Mastery of
the Air, London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1916, pp.
102—106, 123—133.
Clifford, Harold B. Wilbur and Orville Wright. In his
American Leaders, New York: American Book
Company, 1953, pp. 258—267.
Cohen, Rose N. The Wrights Show How! In her The
Men Who Gave Us Wings, New York: The Macmillan
Company, 1944, pp. 115—136, +illus.
Cottler, Joseph, and Jaffe, Haym. Wright Brothers, Child
Life, Sept. 1931, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 444—445, 471, +illus.
Craig, Barbara. The Wright Brothers and Their
Development of the Airplane, Raleigh: State Dept. of
Archives and History, 1960, 23 pp.