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"THE WRIGHT BROTHERS" by Fred C. Kelly. This is the one I read and it turns out to be on project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67672/67672-h/6767
by phkahler 2y ago
"THE WRIGHT BROTHERS" by Fred C. Kelly. This is the one I read and it turns out to be on project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67672/67672-h/67672-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67672/67672-h/67672-h.htm
I'm really curious how that is considered public domain, it was published in 1943 and he died in 1959.
Anyway, one of the things most fascinating to me was their attempts to sell an airplane to the US army and other business related things. You'd think inventing the airplane would bring quick financial rewards but it was a long road.
- elendee 2y agoGPT tells me (take it or leave it) that books published before 1963 only had a copyright of 28 years generally, and it wasn't until 1978 that the "author life + 70 years" started