Charles E. Taylor, 1868-1956 : the Wright brothers mechanician / by Howard R. DuFour, with Peter J. Unitt ; edited by David K. Vaughan
Material type: TextPublication details: [S.l.] : Howard R. DuFour, c1997Description: ix, 195 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 096699650X
- 629.13 TAY
- TL540.T348 D8 1997
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Special Collections copy signed by the author.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-193) and index
The eve of powered flight -- Enter Charlie Taylor -- The do-it-yourself engine -- Machine tools -- Materials & metalurgy [sic] -- Power at Kitty Hawk -- Huffman "airport manager", Flyers in Europe -- The Military Flyer and the Wright Flying School -- Greener pastures? -- Back in Dayton for a while -- Charlie suffers real depression -- Greenfield Village -- Anniversaries -- The final years -- Epilogue -- Appendices: A - Chronology of Charlie Taylor; B - The Taylor family; C - How Charlie machined the 1903 engine; D- Propellers are really wings
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