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2014., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: 973 G622b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The feud between the great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss -- a collision of unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they battled each other in court, at air shows, and in the newspapers. The outcome of this contest of wills would shape the course of aviation history--and take a fearsome toll on the men involved. The engrossing story of the Wrights' war with Curtiss, set against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, rich with period detail and larger-than-life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or 'Cap't Tom' as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent-film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. And then there is Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the greatest aviator who ever lived, who dazzled crowds with an array of trademark twists and dives--and best embodied the romance with death that fueled so many of aviation's earliest heroes. A dramatic story of unimaginable bravery in the air and brutal competition on the ground --At once a thrill ride through flight's wild early years and a surprising look at the personal clash that fueled the race to the skies"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Hidden F Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
![Hidden figures [DVD] (2016). Directed by Theodore Melfi.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Hidden figures [DVD] (2016). Directed by Theodore Melfi.")
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2016., General, William Morrow Call No: BLK 510.922 L479h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--Provided by publisher.
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-- Wright brothers and the race for flight2001., McArthur & Co. Call No: CLBio W952c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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-- First African Americans in the Space Program.[2015]., University of Texas Press Call No: BLK 629.409 P324w Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Richard Paul and Steven Moss profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. The authors vividly describe what it was like to be the sole African American in a NASA work group and how these brave and determined men also helped to transform Southern society by integrating colleges, patenting new inventions, holding elective office, and reviving and governing defunct towns.
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2015., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: Bio W947m Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers<U+2019> story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them."--From publisher.
