Birdmen : the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the battle to control the skies

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Birdmen : The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

by Goldstone, Lawrence

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Prologue: Genius Extinguished	p. xi
Chapter 1	Fulcrum	p. 3
Chapter 2	Highway in the Sky	p. 17
Chapter 3	Men in the Dunes	p. 24
Chapter 4	To Kitty Hawk	p. 32
Chapter 5	Sophomore Slump	p. 47
Chapter 6	Gas Bag	p. 56
Chapter 7	Where No Man Had Gone Before	p. 72
Chapter 8	Patent Pioneering	p. 82
Chapter 9	The Vagaries of the Marketplace	p. 94
Chapter 10	The Inexorable Progression of Knowledge	p. 99
Chapter 11	The First Brazilian Aloft	p. 107
Chapter 12	Langley's Legacy	p. 111
Chapter 13	Closing Fast	p. 121
Chapter 14	Vindication	p. 127
Chapter 15	Orville and Selfridge	p. 135
Chapter 16	The Toast of France	p. 143
Chapter 17	Trading Punches	p. 153
Chapter 18	Best-Laid Plans	p. 177
Chapter 19	Bowing to the Inevitable	p. 192
Chapter 20	Team Sports	p. 206
Chapter 21	Mavericks	p. 215
Chapter 22	Faster, Steeper, Higher	p. 236
Chapter 23	War Birds	p. 256
Chapter 24	Owning the Sky	p. 274
Chapter 25	The Wages of Righteousness	p. 293
Chapter 26	The Romance of Death	p. 316
Chapter 27	A Reluctant Steward	p. 333
Chapter 28	A Wisp of Victory	p. 346
Chapter 29	The Grip of the Spotlight	p. 360
Chapter 30	The Death of Innocence	p. 369
	Epilogue	p. 377
	Notes	p. 387
	Selected Bibliography	p. 401
	Index	p. 405