The Wright Brothers, Ben Thompson
The Wright Brothers, Ben Thompson
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The Wright Brothers
Nose-Diving Into History

Author: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/07/2018

Synopsis

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 twelve-second flight! In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take readers 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.

About Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson has run the warhammer of a website badassoftheweek.com since 2004, and has written humorous history-related columns for outlets such as Cracked, Fangoria, Penthouse, and the American Mustache Institute. Even though he's never flown a jetpack over the Atlantic Ocean or punched someone so hard that his head exploded, he is considered by many to be the world's foremost expert on badassitude. He is the author of Badass and Badass: The Birth of a Legend.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunday on September 09, 2019

The authors, Slader and Thompson, immediately draw student-readers into a conversation in the first two sentences of the introduction to the book--“If at first you don’t succeed…you’re not the only one. In fact, you’re in pretty good company.” They quickly move into narrating an epic fail of the Wri......more

Goodreads review by Sara on January 07, 2022

An amusing, brief and interesting look into the history of the Wright Brothers. Their story was told in a fresh and funny way and while I knew I was learning something, it didn't feel like it. Not only did I learn things I'd never known about the Wrights, I also learned a lot I hadn't known about th......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany on March 28, 2018

I received an ARC of this book from School Library Journal. I LOVED this book! It's short and sweet. Written exactly the way that our elementary-middle grade kids speak with phrases such as "straight up" and "Heck no!" It's a great example of failing epically but ultimately succeeding while making t......more

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