What the Wrights Wrought
The Centennial of Flight in Recent Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4970092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guillaume De Syon (0000-0002-1200-1882, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 350-357 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2004.0063 |
| OpenAlex | W2161932933 |
| Language | EN |
On 17 December 2003, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, resonated with a celebration of the centennial of the first controlled human flight, the culmination of months filled with news of activities designed to commemorate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Museum curators vied with marketeers—and with writers and publishers, several dozen volumes about the Wright brothers and aviation history appearing in 2003 alone. Twelve books are noted here as indicative of the current historiography, and by way of suggesting how it has changed since publication of a review essay similar to this one in T&C fifteen years ago
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Aviation · Centennial · Culmination · Dozen · Historiography · Wright · Engineering · History · The Impact of Diversity and Innovation on Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |