Wings of Opportunity - The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910, America s First

Informationen zum Autor Julie Hedgepeth Williams is a journalism professor at Samford University. She received a B.A. in English and history from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and a master's in journalism and a Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Alabama. Klappentext In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first American civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. Author Julie Hedgepeth Williams chronicles the short life of this flight school as seen mainly through the eyes of the Alabama press, whose reporting and sometimes misreporting "reflected the misconceptions, hopes, dreams, and fears about aviation in 1910, painting a picture of a time when flight was untested, unsteady, and unavailable to most people."

Product details

• Authors: Julie Hedgepeth Williams
• Publisher: Blair John F Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2010
• EAN: 9781588381682
• ISBN: 978-1-58838-168-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous