To honor the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' history-making flight at Kitty Hawk, National Geographic Books and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (SNASM) present this official companion volume to this October's SNASM exhibition of the same name.
illustrated look at the lives of the brothers and their world-changing invention…it was invention, engineering, and the new possibilities of manned flight that obsessed them…explain the Wrights’ achievements and the moments of their great successes, and they paint a masterful personal portrait of the two sometimes erratic, genius personalities (never married, the brothers lived together all their lives), and, most important, the world of pioneering aviation in which they operated.

I learned a lot about the Wright Brothers and about their inventions. I found it interesting that their bike shop background helped them to devise the airplane. Quite interesting and a lot more detail than what I remember getting as a child when we talked about it. Lots of photos too--more than I would have thought available for the time period. ( )