title: Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention
author:  Peter L. Jakab 
description: Thoroughly researched and well written, this is a scholarly assessment of the engineering methods used by the Wright Brothers. Jakab documents the progression of their experiments to refine the wings, propulsion system, and control and balance designs that led to a flyable airplane. He underscores the Wrights' hard work and perseverence throughout. Tom D. Crouch's The Bishop's Boys ( LJ 5/15/89) is an excellent companion volume which relates the biographical side of this fascinating story.<BR><I>- William A. McIntyre, L.R.C., New Hampshire Technical Coll., Nashua</I><BR>Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # A Project for Flying
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert Hardley
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  A Project for Flying.
  
  
  In Earnest at Last!
  
  
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  A Project for Flying.
  
  
  In Earnest At Last.
  
  
  
  
  
  The following appeared in one of our public journals of the date
  
  
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  _To the Editor of the Tribune._
  
  
  SIR:—You rightly appreciate the interest with which the popular
  
  
  mind regards all efforts in the direction of navigating the air.
  
  
  One man of my acquaintance was deeply interested to know the results
  
  
  of the California Experiment, because he alone, as he believed, had
  
  
  questioned Nature and learned from her the great secret of aerial
  
  
  navigation.
  
  
  To-day's _Tribune_ brings us the full account of the machine,
  
  
  its performance and _modus operandi_ ; and with