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Johnson, James Clayton.

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Flights past: The Wright brothers' legacy and Dayton, Ohio.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Flights past: The Wright brothers' legacy and Dayton, Ohio./
作者:	Johnson, James Clayton.
面頁冊數:	290 p.
附註:	Adviser: Kristin Szyvian.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
標題:	History, United States. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3293176
ISBN:	9780549371250

Flights past: The Wright brothers' legacy and Dayton, Ohio.
Johnson, James Clayton.

Flights past: The Wright brothers' legacy and Dayton, Ohio. - 290 p.

Adviser: Kristin Szyvian.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Western Michigan University, 2007.

During the early twentieth century, Wilbur and Orville Wright faced a lengthy struggle over their recognition as the inventors of the airplane. This controversy still lingers today. Even their hometown, Dayton, Ohio, where the brothers spent years engineering and perfecting the airplane, hesitated in acknowledging their success. Promoted by a small group of individuals from the Smithsonian Institution, a decades long struggle ensued over who first invented an aircraft capable of powered flight. During the "Smithsonian controversy," the institution embarked on a long and dangerous path of using its status as the nation's museum in an attempt to rewrite history. The ensuing battle with the Smithsonian Institution as well as other first flight claims left the Wright brothers' legacy in doubt. As a result, the Wright brothers engaged in a lifelong fight to protect and assure their rightful place in history. The brothers' drive to protect their legacy and Dayton's failure to recognize its aviation roots came together to leave aviation's birthplace without a focal point to commemorate the Wrights. Today, the Wrights' story is told in Dayton and North Carolina in part by the National Park Service, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. However, preoccupied with its industrial development and recovery from a devastating 1913 flood, Dayton took nearly a century to fully recognize its historic links to the Wright brothers and its aviation history.

ISBN: 9780549371250Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

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