The Wright Brothers
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (England - Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire) British (General)Transcript
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This is an extract of a reading of a book from two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough. He tells the dramatic storey of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly on a winter day in 1903 on the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, changed history. The age of flight had begun with the first heavier than air powered machine carrying a pilot for more than a couple of Daytona bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success. The Wright brothers were men of exceptional ability, unyielding determination on far ranging intellectual interest in curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. They grew up without electricity or indoor plumbing, but with books of plenty supplied mainly by their preacher father. And they never stop learning. Nor did the high spirited, devoted sister, Catherine, who played a far more important role in their endeavours than have been generally understood when the brothers work together. No problem seemed insurmountable. Wilbur, the older of the two, was unquestionably a genius. All the lines such mechanical ingenuity a few people have ever seen. Nothing stopped them in their mission, not failure's not ridicule, not even the reality that every time they took off in one of their experimental contrivances, they stood a good chance of being killed.