February 21, 2019
Discussion led by Nathan Doctrow
Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/books/review-the-wright-brothers-by-david-mccullough.html
https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough-ebook/dp/B00LD1RWP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544561103&sr=8-1&keywords=the+wright+brothers+book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_Brothers_(book)
https://www.biography.com/news/the-wright-brothers-david-mccullough-book