TY - BOOK AU - Crouch,Tom D. TI - Wings: a history of aviation from kites to the space age SN - 9780393057676 U1 - 629.13009 CRO PY - 2003/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum KW - Aeronautics KW - History KW - Space technology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [677]-690) and index N2 - This book tells the history of the birth and development of human flight - the technology that defined the 20th century. Tom Crouch weaves the people, machines and ideas of the air age into a narrative and shows how this extraordinary dream was realized ER -