Today in history
Subtitle: December 17
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Aeronautics; History; Airplanes; Radiocarbon dating; Chemistry
Other titles: December 17
Description: Presents information on the Wright brothers and their first flight on the morning of Dec. 17. Wilbur and Orville Wright took turns piloting and monitoring their flying machine in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. Includes links to information on aviation and airplanes. Also presents information on Willard Frank "Wild Bill" Libby born on Dec. 17, 1908 in Colorado. Libby won the 1660 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his development of the technique known as radiocarbon dating.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: First flight; title: Where history meets physical science.