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

Maizlish, I. Leon. Wings for Men. In his Wonderful
Wings, the Story of Aviation. Illustrated by Barry Bart.
Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1941,
pp. 25—33, +illus.
Marquardt, Max. Illustrated by Mike Eagle. Wilbur and
Orville and the Flying Machine. Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Raintree Publishers, 1989, 32 pp., +illus.
A biography of the Wrights for beginning readers.
Martin, Rudolph, and Schalk, Gustav. Die Gebr der
Wright. In their Von Ikarus bis Zeppelin; ein
Luftschifferbuch f r die Jugend, Berlin, Leipzig:
Brandus sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1908, pp. 54—68.
Mason, Miriam E., and Cartwright, William H. The
Wright Brothers. In their Trail Blazers of American
History, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1961, pp.
315—324.
McGuire, Edna. Wilbur and Orville Wright; Masters of
the Air. In her They Made America Great; a First Book
in American History, New York: Macmillan, 1957, pp.
238—244. (Macmillan Elementary History Series).
Mills, Lois. Three Together; the Story of the Wright
Brothers and Their Sister. Illustrated by William
Moyers, New York: Follett Publishing Company, 1955,
160 pp.
Montgomery, David H. The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and
Orville. In his Beginner s American History, 2d rev. ed.
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1945, pp. 335—342, +illus.
Montgomery, Elizabeth R. The Third Rudder [1903
Airplane of Wilbur and Orville Wright]. In her The Story
Behind Great Inventions. Rev. ed., New York: Dodd,
1953, pp. 241—244.
Mooney, James E. It Happened at Last. In his Wings
Away. Illustrated by Paul Laune. New York: Thomas
Nelson and Sons, 1937, pp. 21—25.
Moore, Patrick. Conquest of the Air: The Story of the
Wright Brothers. London: Lutterworth Press, 1961, 94
pp. (Courage and Conquest Series no. 6.).
Morrill, Madge H., and Morrill, Leslie. The Wright
Brothers, First to Fly. Illustrated by Lee J. Ames,
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1955, 128 pp.
Mowbray, Jay H. Early Experiments of Wright Brothers.
In his Conquest of the Air By Airships and Other Flying
Machines, Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1910,
pp. 156—175, +illus.
Juvenile Publications
Nida, William L., and Nida, Stella H. The Wright
Brothers and the Aeroplane. In their Pilots and
Pathfinders, New York: Macmillan, 1934, pp. 395—399.
Norris, Geoffrey. Wright Brothers. Illustrated by John
Norbury. New York: Roy Publishers, 1963, 159 pp.
(Peoples, Places, and Things).
Old, Wendie C. Wright Brothers: Inventors of the
Airplane. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Enslow
Publishers, Inc., 2000, 128 pp., +illus.
Short but relatively comprehensive biography of
the Wright brothers, for older children starting their
own research on the Wright brothers.
Includes an index, 64 chapter notes, 10 citations of
books for further reading, and 5 internet addresses.
Paris, Leonard. Birth of the Air Age. Senior Scholastic,
Feb. 1, 1957, vol. 70, p. 17.
An account of the Wright brothers December 17,
1903, flights in the magazine s Words That Shaped
America series, erroneously quoting them in a
telegram to their sister Katharine as saying We Have
Done It.
. They Gave Us Tomorrow; Wilbur and Orville
Wright. Senior Scholastic, Apr. 11, 1958, vol. 72, p. 11.
Thumbnail sketch, no. 22 in the magazine s
Creative Americans series.
Pearl, Lizzy. Illustrated by Mark Bergin. Story of Flight.
Mahwah, New Jersey: Troll Associates, 1994, 32 pp.,
+illus.
For intermediate readers, a survey of the history of
aviation, from the first attempts to the Wright brothers
to modern planes. Includes a fact file on how a plane
flies and how a jet engine works (thrust and drag), and
an index.
Pratt, Fletcher. [Wright Brothers]. In his Famous
Inventors and Their Inventions, New York: Random
House, 1955, pp. 40—44.
Pringle, Patrick. The First to Fly. In his They Were the
First, New York: Roy Publishers, 1965, pp. 57—65.
. Wilbur and Orville Wright. In his When They
Were Boys; Sixteen Boyhood Stories of Famous Men,
New York: Roy Publishers, 1954, pp. 197—209.
Quackenbush, Robert. Take Me Out to the Airfield: How
the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane. New York:
Parents Magazine Press, 1976, [approx. 32 pp.], +illus.
Biography of the Wright brothers from their childhood
to their first flight, illustrated by numerous
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