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The Wright Company : From Invention to Industry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444740
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Wright CompanyDDC classification:
  • 338.7/629130973
LOC classification:
  • HD9711.U64 .R633 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One " We Will Devote . . . Our Time to Experimental Work": Creating the Wright Company -- Two Bringing an Aeroplane Factory to Dayton -- Three "A Substantial, Commodious, Thoroughly Modern Factory": The Wright Company Enters the Market -- Four "Our Machines Are Sold on Their Merits": Patents, Profits, and Controversy -- Five World Records for Wright Aviators: The Exhibition Department -- Six To Change or Not to Change: Creating New Airplanes and New Pilots -- Seven Turning Buyer Attention the Company Way: Advertising -- Eight Managing the Wrights' Company -- Nine "It Is Something I Have Wanted to Do for Many Months": Exit Orville -- Epilogue: The Wright Company's Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A fascinating window into Wilbur and Orville Wright's legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One " We Will Devote . . . Our Time to Experimental Work": Creating the Wright Company -- Two Bringing an Aeroplane Factory to Dayton -- Three "A Substantial, Commodious, Thoroughly Modern Factory": The Wright Company Enters the Market -- Four "Our Machines Are Sold on Their Merits": Patents, Profits, and Controversy -- Five World Records for Wright Aviators: The Exhibition Department -- Six To Change or Not to Change: Creating New Airplanes and New Pilots -- Seven Turning Buyer Attention the Company Way: Advertising -- Eight Managing the Wrights' Company -- Nine "It Is Something I Have Wanted to Do for Many Months": Exit Orville -- Epilogue: The Wright Company's Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A fascinating window into Wilbur and Orville Wright's legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.

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