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'Forum of Famous Faces' stages finale at Sterling Middle School

Journal-Advocate - Jan 19, 2012
Portraying airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright for Sterling Middle School's "Forum of Famous Faces" are Davis Lebsock and Jake Busmente. Students will bring a variety of historical figures to life during shows tonight and Friday.

Students portray historical people

Charlotte Observer - Jan 18, 2012
By Marty Minchin Logan Wikfors, left, and Michael Ledermann pose as Orville and Wilbur Wright during Fairview Elementary's wax museum event. SHERRI BAIN FAIRVIEW Nine-year-old Adyson Helms recently got a taste of what it's like to be a world-class ...

Obama pushes Chicago-style community college/employer partnerships

Chicago Sun-Times (blog) - Jan 25, 2012
The City Colleges of Chicago includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. The system also oversees the ...

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America: A New World Power

by: Frederick Funston, Woodrow Wilson, Commander Robert E. Peary, James Rood Doolittle, George W. Goethals, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Commodore George Dewey, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt
By 1890, the world saw a new global power. The United States, barely 100 years
old, had recovered from devastating Civil War and its territory now covered half
a continent. This volume of eye-witness historical accounts takes us up to
Woodrow Wilson's Presidency and 1914. American power and confidence grew – and
sometimes over-reached itself, as Alexander Noyes describes in his account of
the Panics of 1893 and 1907. There’s a fascinating account of Henry Ford and the .
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First Flight: The Wright Brothers

by: Caryn Jenner
Growing up in rural Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright were fascinated by all kinds of vehicles -- a toy helicopter, bicycles, and the first motorized cars -- but what they dreamed of was flight. They were convinced they could build a machine that a man could pilot-and they did. Read about their amazing story of trial, error, and success.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers

by: Augusta Stevenson
Presents the boyhood of the brothers who flew the first airplane in 1903.
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Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century

by: David P. Billington, David P. Billington Jr.

Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939--the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
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