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Book The Wright Connection

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Jean Roper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780995283404
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Wright Connection written by Margaret Jean Roper and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wright Connection

Download or read book The Wright Connection written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Wright (ca. 1671-ca. 1760) was probably born in Yorkshire, England and probably immigrated to New Jersey at age six, He married Mary Davis (1689- ca. 1764) ca. 1707. They settled in Prince George County, Maryland. Later they moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania. James and Mary had twelve children. Their descendant Johnathan Wesley Wright (1801-1889) was born in Burke County, North Carolina. He married Mary Jane (Polly) Bailey ca. 1820. They had nine children and moved to Southwest Virginia between 1836-1839. Descendants lived in Minnesota, Michigan, California, Washington, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, New York and elsewhere.

Book Washington Wright Connection

Download or read book Washington Wright Connection written by Charles Arthur Hoppin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wright Connection in Central Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Wright Connection in Central Pennsylvania written by Robert E. Malcom and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wright Connection

Download or read book The Wright Connection written by Jocelyn Hawes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Muncie 4 Speed Transmissions

Download or read book Muncie 4 Speed Transmissions written by Paul Cangialosi and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muncie 4-speeds, M20, M21, and M22 are some of the most popular manual transmissions ever made and continue to be incredibly popular. The Muncie was the top high-performance manual transmission GM offered in its muscle cars of the 60s and early 70s. It was installed in the Camaro, Chevelle, Buick GS, Pontiac GTO, Olds Cutlass, and many other classic cars. Many owners want to retain the original transmission in their classic cars to maintain its value. Transmission expert and veteran author Paul Cangialosi has created an indispensible reference to Muncie 4-speeds that guides you through each crucial stage of the rebuild process. Comprehensive ID information is provided, so you can positively identify the cases, shafts, and related parts. It discusses available models, parts options, and gearbox cases. Most important, it shows how to completely disassemble the gearbox, identify wear and damage, select the best parts, and complete the rebuild. It also explains how to choose the ideal gear ratio for a particular application. Various high-performance and racing setups are also shown, including essential modifications, gun drilling the shafts, cutting down the gears to remove weight, and achieving race-specific clearances. Muncie 4-speeds need rebuilding after many miles of service and extreme use. In addition, when a muscle car owner builds a high-performance engine that far exceeds stock horsepower, a stronger high-performance transmission must be built to accommodate this torque and horsepower increase. No other book goes into this much detail on the identification of the Muncie 4-speed, available parts, selection of gear ratios, and the rebuild process.

Book Stewarts from Virginia with Wright Connections

Download or read book Stewarts from Virginia with Wright Connections written by Hazel Wright Dishman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Stewart (born ca. 1638), a Scot living in Balmurin, Ireland, married Catherine Graham, daughter of John Graham, before 1664. They emigrated to Virginia before 1677. John Wright (1601-1688) was born in England. He married Priscilla (d. 1687), and they emigrated to America, settling in Woburn, Massachusetts, ca. 1640.

Book Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright

Download or read book Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright written by M. Lynn Weiss and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. “I've got to help him,” she said. “You see, we are both members of a minority group.” The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the next fifteen months, the two kept up a lively correspondence which culminated in Wright's visit to Paris in May 1946 and ended with Stein's death a few months later. Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent exile in France. Still, the obvious differences between them—in class, ethnic and racial origins, and in artistic expression—beg the question: What was there to talk about? This question opens a window onto each writer's meditations on the influence of racial, ethnic, national origins on the formation of identity in a modern and post-modern world. The intuitive and intellectual affinities between Stein and Wright are illuminated in several works of nonfiction. Stein's Paris France and Wright's Pagan Spain are meditations on expatriation and creativity. Their so-called homecoming narratives—Stein's Everybody's Autobiography and Wright's Black Power—examine concepts of racial and national identity in a post-modernist world. Respectively, in Lectures in America and White Man, Listen!, Stein and Wright outline the ways in which the poetics and politics of modernism are inextricably bound. At the close of the twentieth century, the meditations of Stein and Wright on the protean quality of individual identity and its artistic, social, and political expression explore the most prescient and pressing issues of our time and beyond.

Book Guided Afterlife Connections

Download or read book Guided Afterlife Connections written by Rochelle Wright and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making of Inside the Wright Brothers in

Download or read book Making of Inside the Wright Brothers in written by John Passfield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal, a companion book to the novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, is a record of the thoughts that occur to a writer while in the process of writing a novel. In recording these thoughts, the journal provides an exploration of a number of topics: the working out of a pattern, in novel form, to reflect the author's conception of the meaning of the Wright Brothers' experience; a consideration of the achievement of the Wright Brothers as an example of the creative process at work; and a step-by-step record of the writing process, which includes the planning, writing, editing and polishing of a novel about the Wright Brothers. In addition, the journal presents the challenge of matching form and meaning in the novel genre as a response to the complexities of life, and a discussion of the possibilities of the novel as an art form. This journal is the seventh in a series of companion books pairing novel and journal which explore the concept of form and meaning in the novel.

Book The Wright Company

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward J. Roach
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-06
  • ISBN : 0821444743
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Wright Company written by Edward J. Roach and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company. The Wright Company trained hundreds of early aviators at its flight schools, including Roy Brown, the Canadian pilot credited with shooting down Manfred von Richtofen—the “Red Baron”—during the First World War; and Hap Arnold, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Pilots with the company’s exhibition department thrilled crowds at events from Winnipeg to Boston, Corpus Christi to Colorado Springs. Cal Rodgers flew a Wright Company airplane in pursuit of the $50,000 Hearst Aviation Prize in 1911. But all was not well in Dayton, a city that hummed with industry, producing cash registers, railroad cars, and many other products. The brothers found it hard to transition from running their own bicycle business to being corporate executives responsible for other people’s money. Their dogged pursuit of enforcement of their 1906 patent—especially against Glenn Curtiss and his company—helped hold back the development of the U.S. aviation industry. When Orville Wright sold the company in 1915, more than three years after his brother’s death, he was a comfortable man—but his company had built only 120 airplanes at its Dayton factory and Wright Company products were not in the U.S. arsenal as war continued in Europe. Edward Roach provides a fascinating window into the legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.

Book The Wright Brothers

Download or read book The Wright Brothers written by Janet Dorfman and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wright brothers built and flew their own motorized airplane! Read this book to learn about the lives of the Wright brothers.

Book History of the Wright s and Their Connections

Download or read book History of the Wright s and Their Connections written by Carol Wright Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stories from Architecture

Download or read book Stories from Architecture written by Philippa Lewis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues. Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In Stories from Architecture, Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.

Book Speaker Jim Wright

Download or read book Speaker Jim Wright written by J. Brooks Flippen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century—energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David Accords, and he was the first American politician to speak live on Soviet television. A Democrat representing Texas’s twelfth district (Fort Worth), Wright served in the US House of Representatives from the Eisenhower administration to the presidency of George H. W. Bush, including twelve years (1977–1989) as majority leader and speaker. His long congressional ascension and sudden fall in a highly partisan ethics scandal spearheaded by Newt Gingrich mirrored the evolution of Congress as an institution. Speaker Jim Wright traces the congressman’s long life and career in a highly readable narrative grounded in extensive interviews with Wright and access to his personal diaries. A skilled connector who bridged the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic party while forging alliances with Republicans to pass legislation, Wright ultimately fell victim to a new era of political infighting, as well as to his own hubris and mistakes. J. Brooks Flippen shows how Wright’s career shaped the political culture of Congress, from its internal rules and power structure to its growing partisanship, even as those new dynamics eventually contributed to his political demise. To understand Jim Wright in all his complexity is to understand the story of modern American politics.

Book The Dick Wright Connection

Download or read book The Dick Wright Connection written by Raymond B. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: