Book Report on The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
The Wright Brothers is an excellent masterpiece by David McCullough which gives the biography of the two Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright; who taught the world that humans could fly too by inventing the first flying aircraft. Though the book narrates a bit on their personal life and incidents in family, the main emphasis of the book is to explain the struggles faced by the two brothers for a period of 10 years on developing a functioning aircraft.
On 17th December of 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, The Wright Brothers unveiled the world that they had invented an amusing piece of machine which could fly carrying a person. Though the book explains the series of crashes when they tried at first, but then they proved to be successful in front of all the spectators including the public and …show more content…
Both the brothers were impressed by the birds and they used to spend hours of time to observe the birds in flight. When questioned about this, Orville used to say, “Learning the secret of flight from a bird was like learning the secret of magic from a magician”. It was found that they applied the knowledge of bird’s flight in creating the wing for their aircraft.
Wilbur and Orville never seem to have a problem or misunderstanding between each other since they only had a goal to achieve the human flights rather than wasting their time in useless arguments. This is why both the brothers never married and stayed as a bachelor. They worked so hard towards their single goal for like more than 16 hours a day, 6 days a week for several years with not much fun in their life. Orville once said that they could chose a different path if they were interested to make a fortune. But instead they wanted to succeed in the idea of making a flying
The Wright Brothers is an excellent masterpiece by David McCullough which gives the biography of the two Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright; who taught the world that humans could fly too by inventing the first flying aircraft. Though the book narrates a bit on their personal life and incidents in family, the main emphasis of the book is to explain the struggles faced by the two brothers for a period of 10 years on developing a functioning aircraft.
On 17th December of 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, The Wright Brothers unveiled the world that they had invented an amusing piece of machine which could fly carrying a person. Though the book explains the series of crashes when they tried at first, but then they proved to be successful in front of all the spectators including the public and …show more content…
Both the brothers were impressed by the birds and they used to spend hours of time to observe the birds in flight. When questioned about this, Orville used to say, “Learning the secret of flight from a bird was like learning the secret of magic from a magician”. It was found that they applied the knowledge of bird’s flight in creating the wing for their aircraft.
Wilbur and Orville never seem to have a problem or misunderstanding between each other since they only had a goal to achieve the human flights rather than wasting their time in useless arguments. This is why both the brothers never married and stayed as a bachelor. They worked so hard towards their single goal for like more than 16 hours a day, 6 days a week for several years with not much fun in their life. Orville once said that they could chose a different path if they were interested to make a fortune. But instead they wanted to succeed in the idea of making a flying