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First to Fly: the Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright - Brief Article - Book Review
Contemporary Review, Oct, 2003
James Tobin. John Murray. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. 431 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5727-5. This account of the Wright brothers' success in manufacturing and flying aeroplanes was first published in the U.S. by Free Press. It is one of many new titles to celebrate the centenary of the first manned flight.
The author excels in painting the background against which the two Ohio-born brothers conducted their researches and experiments and fought off competitors in the attempt to be the first to make and fly aeroplanes. On occasions it seems that the fight with rivals was more demanding than that with the laws of aerodynamics. No one doubted that the Wrights had been the first to fly yet their claim to have been the first to invent manned aeroplanes capable of independent flight was hotly contested. The author has done a great deal of research amongst the relevant manuscript collections to give his readers a history that reads like an adventure story, which, in many ways, is what it was. (R.G.W.)
COPYRIGHT 2003 Contemporary Review Company Ltd.
COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group
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