Los Hermanos Wright La Conquista De Los Cielos

For years, the Wright brothers experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the U.S. War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different pathsLangley s toward oblivion, the Wrights toward the heavensthough not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian s accuracy and a novelist s eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.