Before The Wright Brothers By Don Berliner

Summary Before the Wright Brothers by Don Berliner tells how 13 scientists experiment with flight. From jumping off a hill and gliding to the bottom, to flying over 600 feet all within about 100 years. Most of the scientists provided good information of flight but then Otto Lilienthal built gliders that improve to fly better. Later in 1896 he flew his glider then crashed and died. None of the scientists could figure out how to control the aircraft. Until Gustave Whitehead who had the first controlled flight flew a half mile. The hardest part of flight was needing to control the aircraft the Wright Brothers succeeded in that.

Author's purpose The purpose of this book is to show that a lot more happened to inspire the Wright Brothers to make