{"product_id":"a-dream-of-wings-tom-d-crouch-9780393322279","title":"A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and dreamers--men named Chanute and Langley and Herring--had tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft, from kites and gliders to an assortment of powered flying models.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese imaginative people and their wonderful contraptions are brought to life in Tom Crouch's classic \u003cem\u003eA Dream of Wings\u003c\/em\u003e. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed and broke apart, successes were celebrated, hopes rose and fell, and lessons were learned and built upon. The dreamers who blazed the path to a flying machine are bravely realized in these delightful pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom D. Crouch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393322270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393322279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Tom D. Crouch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919663366399,"sku":"9780393322279","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bf93a87c-2407-4f3d-8d0a-096c032a1bf2.jpg?v=1680810630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-dream-of-wings-tom-d-crouch-9780393322279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}