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Glenn Curtiss, pioneer of flight / C.R. Roseberry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roseberry, Cecil R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930.
- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond.
- Aeronautics--United States--Biography.
- Aeronautics.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 514 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Syracuse University Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- More than just a biography, this is also a well-documented history of the development of aviation and they key figures associated with it during the first three crucial decades of this century. Through an examination of Curtiss's dealings with people such as Alexander Graham Bell, his original partner, and Wilbur and Orville Wright, his most important rivals, Roseberry provides insight into the overall development of flight in America.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-491) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815602642
- OCLC:
- 23356208
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