Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dayton (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Williams' Dayton Directory for ..
Author: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Author: John James AudubonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
Author: Martindale-HubbellPublisher: Martindale-Hubbell
ISBN: 9781561604913
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2690
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Williams' Cincinnati (Hamilton County, Ohio) City Directory
Author: 1993-1994 Official Congressional Directory
Author: Duane NystromPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160411755
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
Official Congressional Directory, 1995-1996
Author: United States Government Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780160472138
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
The Wright Company
Author: Edward J. RoachPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821444743
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company. The Wright Company trained hundreds of early aviators at its flight schools, including Roy Brown, the Canadian pilot credited with shooting down Manfred von Richtofen—the “Red Baron”—during the First World War; and Hap Arnold, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Pilots with the company’s exhibition department thrilled crowds at events from Winnipeg to Boston, Corpus Christi to Colorado Springs. Cal Rodgers flew a Wright Company airplane in pursuit of the $50,000 Hearst Aviation Prize in 1911. But all was not well in Dayton, a city that hummed with industry, producing cash registers, railroad cars, and many other products. The brothers found it hard to transition from running their own bicycle business to being corporate executives responsible for other people’s money. Their dogged pursuit of enforcement of their 1906 patent—especially against Glenn Curtiss and his company—helped hold back the development of the U.S. aviation industry. When Orville Wright sold the company in 1915, more than three years after his brother’s death, he was a comfortable man—but his company had built only 120 airplanes at its Dayton factory and Wright Company products were not in the U.S. arsenal as war continued in Europe. Edward Roach provides a fascinating window into the legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160731761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2244
Book Description
Lists every member of the U.S. House and Senate since 1789, with brief biographical entries on each member.