Project Gutenberg 2012-02-02 Public domain in the USA. 604 Hobbs, Leonard S. 1896 1977 Hobbs, Luke 78614968 The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design Reading ease score: 45.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by Chris Curnow, Joe Cooper, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design" by Leonard S. Hobbs is a scientific publication written in the early 1970s. This work is part of the Smithsonian Annals of Flight and focuses on the pioneering engines crafted by Wilbur and Orville Wright during the early 20th century. The book delves into the engineering accomplishments of the Wright brothers, examining their innovative designs and the technical challenges they faced as they strove to achieve powered flight. At the start of the text, Hobbs establishes the historical significance and context of the Wright brothers' endeavor in aircraft engine development, portraying them as both visionaries and skilled engineers. The opening details the origins of their interests in flight and the initial steps they took in creating their own power units for their flying machines. By exploring their design processes, Hobbs introduces readers to the complexities that accompanied their projects, illustrating how the Wrights transitioned from theoretical considerations to practical engineering solutions, thus laying the groundwork for the evolution of aviation technology. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 Airplanes -- Motors -- History TL Text Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: History - General Browsing: Science - General 217288 216348 2024-11-16T12:07:06.863791 2023-09-17T05:14:55.335018 text/html text/html 209172 2012-02-02T15:02:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 3499380 2012-02-02T15:02:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 3563285 2024-11-16T12:07:15.673781 application/epub+zip 3562277 2024-11-16T12:07:10.825789 application/epub+zip 136200 2024-11-16T12:07:09.275815 application/epub+zip 3504829 2024-11-16T12:07:19.900703 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3476506 2024-11-16T12:07:14.436782 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 273097 2022-09-17T16:17:26.785980 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 185718 185591 2024-11-16T12:07:04.920805 2023-09-17T05:14:54.755011 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 185608 2012-02-02T15:02:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 66244 2012-02-02T15:02:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 185636 2012-02-02T15:02:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 66215 2012-02-02T15:02:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21896 2024-11-16T12:07:20.135829 application/rdf+xml 15335 2024-11-16T12:07:09.846752 image/jpeg 3554 2024-11-16T12:07:09.564767 image/jpeg 3737051 2024-11-16T12:07:07.016795 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog