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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Open today 4 PM - 11 PM

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Open today 4 PM - 11 PM

Flying Machines

Digital Exhibitions

Flying Machines

A History of Early Aviation

Bibliography

Recommended Reading

Crouch, Tom D. The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America . Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.

Crouch, Tom D. A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905 . 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1981.

Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, and Augustus Post. The Curtiss Aviation Book. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912.

Gubert, Betty Kaplan, Miriam. Sawyer, and Caroline M. Fannin. Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science. Westport, Conn: Oryx Press, 2002.

Hallion, Richard. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Heppenheimer, T. A. A Brief History of Flight: From Balloons to Mach 3 and Beyond. New York: John Wiley, 2001.

Kim, Mi Gyung. The Imagined Empire : Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe . Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

McCullough, David G. The Wright Brothers. New York, N.Y: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

O’Brien, Keith. Fly Girls : How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Wright, Wilbur et al. The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953.

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