The dream of flight
Subtitle: a Library of Congress special presentation commemorating the centennial of flight
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Aeronautics; History; Flight
Description: On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world's first sustained, powered, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine, thereby realizing one of mankind's oldest and most persistent aspirations--human flight. The Dream of Flight honors that achievement, using the Library's rarest and most significant materials to explore the notion that flight, whether fanciful or actual, has inspired and occupied a central place in most cultures.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on Sept. 2, 2004; last updated Aug. 10, 2004).

Offered as part of American Treasures of the Library of Congress online exhibition.

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