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

Published also in a German translation by same
publisher, with title, Die Ber hmte Erfinder, 1951,
pp. 248—250, +illus.
Dollfus, Charles, and Bouche, Henri. Histoire de
L Aeronautique. Paris: L Illustration, 1942, 617 p.,
+illus.
Includes sections dealing with the Wrights titled
Le Premier Vol Humain, pp. 169—176; Wilbur
Wright en France, pp. 196—197, and Les Premieres
Victimes de L Aviation, p. 198.
Donovan, Frank. The Early Eagles, New York: Dodd,
Mead & Company, 1962, 312 pp.
Chapter three, pp. 49—69, titled The First Winged
Eagles, is a popular treatment of the Wright brothers.
Drury, Augustus W. Wilbur and Orville Wright. In his
history of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County,
Ohio, Chicago-Dayton: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
1909, vol. 2, pp. 871—876.
Egbert, Howard. The Shop That Became a Shrine. A
Recital of the Real Story of the First Flight in an
Aeroplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton,
Ohio, Dayton: The Dayton Chamber of Commerce,
1928, 8 pp.
Issued on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the first successful flight.
Ferber, Ferdinand. L Aviation; ses debuts son developpement.
Paris: Berger-Levrault & Cie, 1908, 250 pp.,
+illus.
Includes two chapters devoted to the Wright brothers,
Orville et Wilbur Wright, pp. 49—55 and
Wright de 1903 1907 ou le soi-disant myst re des
Wrights, pp. 82—95. A German translation of these
chapters was published in Die Kunst zu Fliegen; ihre
Anfange ihre Entwicklung, Berlin: Richard Carl
Schmidt & Co., 1910, pp. 71—77, 105—117.
Fess, Simeon D. The Wright Brothers. In his Ohio; a
Four-Volume Reference Library on the History of a
Great State, Chicago and New York: The Lewis
Publishing Co., 1937, vol. 4, pp. 396—399, ports.
Fisk, Fred C., and Todd, Marlin W. Wright Brothers from
Bicycle to Biplane: An Illustrated History of the Wright
Brothers. Dayton, Ohio: F. C. Fisk and M. W. Todd,
1990, 168 pp.
Includes photographs of all six bicycle shops of the
Wright brothers as well as the Wright family s homes.
Biographical References
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Foltmann, John. Flygplanet blir verklighet. In his Flykt
ver jorden, Stockholm: Kooperativa Forbundets bokforlag,
1945, pp. 14—22, +illus.
Franchere, Ruth. Illustrated by Louis Glanzman.
Crowell Biography Wright Brothers. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1972, 41 pp., +illus.
An easy-to-read biography of the Wright brothers
who built and flew the first powered airplane in 1903.
Fraser, Chelsea. The Wright Brothers. In his Famous
American Flyers, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell
Company, 1941, pp. 1—45.
Published also in 1942 edition.
. The Wrights Enter the Field [and] The Wrights
Invent the Airplane. In his The Story of Aircraft, New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1933, pp. 293—326,
+illus.
Freudenthal, Elsbeth E. Flight into History; the Wright
Brothers and the Air Age, Norman, Okla.: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1949, 281 pp., +illus.
Pages 82—90 of chapter VI titled December 17,
1903 Climax and Beginning reprinted with title
Flight into History in Science Milestones, New
York: Windsor Press, 1954, pp. 270—275.
Biography emphasizing the business affairs of the
Wrights and their relationship with Octave Chanute,
with frequent quotations from the extensive
Wright—Chanute correspondence, but minimizing and
distorting their real contribution to the development of
the aeroplane. Includes numerous footnotes and a bibliography,
pp. 253—261.
Galbreath, Charles B. The Wright Brothers. In his
History of Ohio, Chicago and New York: The American
Historical Society, Inc., 1925, vol. 2, pp. 792—796.
Garber, Paul E. The Wright Brothers. In his The National
Aeronautical Collections. 9th ed. Washington, D.C.: The
Smithsonian Institution, 1956, pp. 32—40, +illus.
(Smithsonian Institution Publication 4255)
Included also in 10th ed., 1965.
Concise account of the Wright brothers by the senior
curator and historian, National Air and Space
Museum.
Garcia de Souza, Jos . A famosa-controv rsia: irm os
Wright, Santos-Dumont. Rio de Janeiro: Empresa
Grafica Ouvidor, 1948, 32 pp.
Presentation of evidence supporting Santos-
Dumont and that supporting the Wrights in their
claims to the honor of first achieving powered flight.