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The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History

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The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into HistoryA hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success. Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight their success was hard earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives

A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success.

Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering--they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight--their success was hard-earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives involved.) In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single twelve-second flight

In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take readers through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.

The Epic Fails series takes a humorous and unexpected view of history, exploring the surprising stories behind a variety of groundbreaking discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations, illustrating how many of mankind's biggest successes are in fact the result of some pretty epic failures.

This title has Common Core connections.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 07/10/2018
ISBN: 9781250150561
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 06/01/2018 pg. 108
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 195870 / Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving Into History
Reading Level: 7.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 2
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