Unlocking the Sky
Subtitle: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: September 16, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780060956158
Subjects: Scientists - Inventors; Historical - General; Aircraft; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Transportation; Scientists - General; Aviation - History; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; General
First sentence: By midafternoon on December 8, 1903, dozens of spectators have gathered on the sunny banks of the Potomac River south of Washington D.C. They have come to glimpse the future.