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Almost underwear : how a piece of cloth traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars Cover Image Book

Almost underwear : how a piece of cloth traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars / written and illustrated by Jonathan Roth.

How a piece of cloth traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars (portion title)
Roth, Jonathan, (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

"One day in 1903, the Wright brothers entered a department store in Ohio to buy a bolt of fabric. The plain muslin cloth was most often used to make underwear. As it happens, the Wright brothers were about to wrap the simple cloth around the ribs of a mechanical wing and dramatically change the world. Sixty-six years later, in 1969, Neil Armstrong took a big leap onto the Moon. With him was a swatch of the exact fabric the brothers had purchased in 1903. Fifty-two years after that, in 2021, a small remote-controlled helicopter became the first Earth craft to fly on another planet. Attached to the underside of a cable was a tiny piece of very old cloth--cloth that had almost become underwear. Here is the story of that incredible piece of fabric and the historic "firsts" it stitched together."-- Dust jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316525541
  • ISBN: 0316525545
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2024.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 4-8. Little, Brown and Company.

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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 > Juvenile literature.
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 > Juvenile literature.
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 > Juvenile literature.
Wright Flyer (Airplane) > Juvenile literature.
Airplanes > Fabrics > Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineering > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Creative nonfiction.
Picture books.

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  • 17 of 18 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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