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Daring flights of early pioneers, descriptions of great American airships, much more—beginning with pioneer invention by Dr. Solomon Andrews in 1865 and ending with the Hindenburg crash in 1937. "...a dramatic account of a lost cause and the heroic men who fought to keep it alive."—Chicago Sunday Tribune. 32 photos.
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"Master of the World" was the last novel by Jules Verne There are a series of unexplained happenings across the eastern United States. They are caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible John Strock, "head inspector in the federal police department" (100 years before the X-Files) in Washington, DC. Strock travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate and discovers that the phenomena are all being caused by the brilliant inventor Dr Robur, .
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The second volume in the time travel/parallel universe series sends Pittsburgh private eye Mark Strang, trained with nightmarish weaponry and teamed with the woman of his dreams, to an alternative 1776, where he becomes his own worst enemy. .
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A remarkable story filled with dreamers, inventors, scoundrels, and pioneering pilots, First to Fly recounts North Carolina's significant role in the early history of aviation Beginning well before the Wright brothers' first powered flight at Kill Devil Hill in 1903, North Carolinians labored at the cutting edge of aviation technology from the late 1800s through World War I.

North Carolina was a launching ground for real and imaginary ballooning adventures as early as 1789. Powered experiments, including what seems to have been America's first airplane, gained momentum in the late nineteenth century. Tar Heel mechanics and inventors also built a dirigible and, arguably, the world's first successful helicopter.

Tom Parramore's account of the Wrights' experiments and turn-of-the-century Dare County provides new information on the crucial role of Outer Bankers in ensuring the Wrights' success. Without this aid, he argues, it is unlikely that the miracle of flight would have first been achieved in 1903--or in America. After 1903, growth in the new aviation industry, spurred by World War I, outpaced North Carolina's ability to play a major role. But the state produced some of the most notable airmen and women of the era, furnishing hundreds of pilots to the war effort..
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