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  • The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1)

  • Nose-Diving into History
  • By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
  • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
  • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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The Wright Brothers (Epic Fails, Book 1)

By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
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A hilarious nonfiction look at two of history's most epic "failures": the Wright brothers, whose countless crashes ultimately led to groundbreaking success.

Although Orville and Wilbur Wright are celebrated today as heroes for their revolutionary contributions to science and engineering - they are acknowledged as the first men to successfully achieve powered, piloted flight - their success was hard-earned. (Spoiler alert: there were a lot of nosedives involved.) In fact, it took the self-taught engineers years of work and dozens of crashes before they managed a single 12-second flight!

In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation.

The Epic Fails series takes a humorous and unexpected view of history, exploring the surprising stories behind a variety of groundbreaking discoveries, voyages, experiments, and innovations, illustrating how many of mankind's biggest successes are in fact the result of some pretty epic failures.

©2018 Erik Slader and Ben Thompson (P)2018 Recorded Books
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