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- ISBN-13
- 9780821420515
- Book Title
- The Wright Company
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0821420518
ISBN-13
9780821420515
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167866599
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
Wright Company : from Invention to Industry
Language
English
Subject
Aviation / History, General, Aviation / Commercial, History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-037400
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
A well-researched and fascinating look into an often forgotten chapter in aviation history…. This detailed biographical, corporate, and industrial history is nicely illustrated with historical photos and advertisements."— Library Journal, "A well-researched and fascinating look into an often forgotten chapter in aviation history.... This detailed biographical, corporate, and industrial history is nicely illustrated with historical photos and advertisements."-- Library Journal, This particular chapter in (the Wright's) story hasn't gotten as much press as their earlier, more daring exploits…. This book reveals the inner workings of the Wright Company and shows how their creation was being transformed, adapted, and improved in a surging aviation industry that was just beginning to take off…. ( The Wright Company ) contains fascinating bits of aviation history."— Dayton Daily News, "The book explores the one area of the career of the Wright brothers that remains least well known. It casts new light on the business career of the Wright brothers, and on the history of the Wright Company and the men who led it.... Taken as a whole, the book offers a concise and readable history of an important topic that has received all too little attention." Tom D. Crouch, Senior Curator, Aeronautics, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, and author of The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright, "The Wrights were excellent self-taught engineers who achieved success through a process more akin to tinkering than systematic research and development. They were poor businessmen, however, as this fine discussion of their stint as 'captains of industry' illustrates." -- American Historical Review, "[Roach] closes a major gap in our understanding of the brothers, drawing on an untapped cache of corporate records and the scattered papers of business associates to produce a history of the Wright Company set in the larger context of American business, labor, urban, and industrial history. His book is a fresh, honest, and well-researched view of Wilbur and Orville's experience as the president and vice president of the Wright Company, respectively, detailing the rise and fall of a firm that in different hands might have dominated an infant industry."-- Business History Review, "Roach's chronicle of the birth, growth, and subsequent marginalization of the Wright Company adds a new and critical piece to the story of America's most famous sibling inventors. Recommended." --Choice, "As a specialist in the history of flight for over the past 30 years, I thought I had encountered everything there was to know about the Wright Brothers and their essential role in the birth and development of the airplane and the Americanaircraft industry. I was wrong. Edward J. Roach's new book fills in many gaps in the story where none of us knew there even were gaps. This new study is a major contribution to aviation historiography."--James R. Hansen, New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, "This particular chapter in (the Wright's) story hasn't gotten as much press as their earlier, more daring exploits.... This book reveals the inner workings of the Wright Company and shows how their creation was being transformed, adapted, and improved in a surging aviation industry that was just beginning to take off.... ( The Wright Company ) contains fascinating bits of aviation history."-- Dayton Daily News, "The book explores the one area of the career of the Wright brothers that remains least well known. It casts new light on the business career of the Wright brothers, and on the history of the Wright Company and the men who led it.… Taken as a whole, the book offers a concise and readable history of an important topic that has received all too little attention." Tom D. Crouch, Senior Curator, Aeronautics, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, and author of The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Roach's chronicle of the birth, growth, and subsequent marginalization of the Wright Company adds a new and critical piece to the story of America's most famous sibling inventors. Recommended." —Choice, "The book explores the one area of the career of the Wright brothers that remains least well known. It casts new light on the business career of the Wright brothers, and on the history of the Wright Company and the men who led it.... Taken as a whole, the book offers a concise and readable history of an important topic that has received all too little attention."--Tom D. Crouch, Senior Curator, Aeronautics, Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, "As a specialist in the history of flight for over the past 30 years, I thought I had encountered everything there was to know about the Wright Brothers and their essential role in the birth and development of the airplane and the American aircraft industry. I was wrong. Edward J. Roach's new book fills in many gaps in the story where none of us knew there even were gaps. This new study is a major contribution to aviation historiography."--James R. Hansen, New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, As a specialist in the history of flight for over the past 30 years, I thought I had encountered everything there was to know about the Wright Brothers and their essential role in the birth and development of the airplane and the American aircraft industry. I was wrong. Edward J. Roach's new book fills in many gaps in the story where none of us knew there even were gaps. This new study is a major contribution to aviation historiography."—James R. Hansen, New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, "Roach has produced what will become the standard work on the subject, and The Wright Company deepens our understanding of early American aviation history in several valuable ways. ...General readers interested in these aspects of twentieth-century transport and aviation history will benefit from reading Roach's work, as will specialists."-- Journal of Transport History, "The Wrights were excellent self-taught engineers who achieved success through a process more akin to tinkering than systematic research and development. They were poor businessmen, however, as this fine discussion of their stint as 'captains of industry' illustrates."-- American Historical Review, Edward Roach's work The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry examines one of the least studied time periods in the brothers' careers. Wilbur and Orville may have been brilliant intuitive engineers, but they were not brilliant intuitive entrepreneurs. their inexperience with the world of big business, plus their energy-draining defense of their patent, left them behind as others pioneered the aircraft industry. This book is a valuable addition to the literature on the Wright brothers and the early history of the aircraft industry in the United States."—Janet R. Bednarek, University of Dayton
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
629.1300922
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company. The Wright Company trained hundreds of early aviators at its flight schools, including Roy Brown, the Canadian pilot credited with shooting down Manfred von Richtofen-the "Red Baron"-during the First World War; and Hap Arnold, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Pilots with the company's exhibition department thrilled crowds at events from Winnipeg to Boston, Corpus Christi to Colorado Springs. Cal Rodgers flew a Wright Company airplane in pursuit of the $50,000 Hearst Aviation Prize in 1911. But all was not well in Dayton, a city that hummed with industry, producing cash registers, railroad cars, and many other products. The brothers found it hard to transition from running their own bicycle business to being corporate executives responsible for other people's money. Their dogged pursuit of enforcement of their 1906 patent-especially against Glenn Curtiss and his company-helped hold back the development of the U.S. aviation industry. When Orville Wright sold the company in 1915, more than three years after his brother's death, he was a comfortable man-but his company had built only 120 airplanes at its Dayton factory and Wright Company products were not in the U.S. arsenal as war continued in Europe. Edward Roach provides a fascinating window into the legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation., Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company. The Wright Company trained hundreds of early aviators at its flight schools, including Roy Brown, the Canadian pilot credited with shooting down Manfred von Richtofen--the "Red Baron"--during the First World War; and Hap Arnold, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Pilots with the company's exhibition department thrilled crowds at events from Winnipeg to Boston, Corpus Christi to Colorado Springs. Cal Rodgers flew a Wright Company airplane in pursuit of the $50,000 Hearst Aviation Prize in 1911. But all was not well in Dayton, a city that hummed with industry, producing cash registers, railroad cars, and many other products. The brothers found it hard to transition from running their own bicycle business to being corporate executives responsible for other people's money. Their dogged pursuit of enforcement of their 1906 patent--especially against Glenn Curtiss and his company--helped hold back the development of the U.S. aviation industry. When Orville Wright sold the company in 1915, more than three years after his brother's death, he was a comfortable man--but his company had built only 120 airplanes at its Dayton factory and Wright Company products were not in the U.S. arsenal as war continued in Europe. Edward Roach provides a fascinating window into the legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation., 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.
LC Classification Number
TL539
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