Almost underwear : how a piece of cloth traveled from Kitty Hawk to the moon and mars / Jonathan Roth.

By:

Roth, Jonathan

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:

9780316525541

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DDC classification:

629.10973 ROT

Summary: The book tells the remarkable true story of a simple piece of muslin cloth that was originally intended to become underwear. Instead, the cloth was purchased by the Wright brothers in 1903 and used on the wings of their historic airplane. Decades later, a small swatch of the same fabric traveled to the Moon with Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission. In 2021, another tiny piece accompanied the Ingenuity helicopter to Mars, becoming part of the first powered flight on another planet. Through engaging storytelling, illustrations, and historical photographs, the book connects three major milestones in the history of flight and demonstrates how innovation builds on past achievements.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development	629.10973 ROT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B230015

The book tells the remarkable true story of a simple piece of muslin cloth that was originally intended to become underwear. Instead, the cloth was purchased by the Wright brothers in 1903 and used on the wings of their historic airplane. Decades later, a small swatch of the same fabric traveled to the Moon with Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission. In 2021, another tiny piece accompanied the Ingenuity helicopter to Mars, becoming part of the first powered flight on another planet. Through engaging storytelling, illustrations, and historical photographs, the book connects three major milestones in the history of flight and demonstrates how innovation builds on past achievements.

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Almost underwear : how a piece of cloth traveled from Kitty Hawk to the moon and mars / Jonathan Roth.