Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle

By Nez, John A.

Publishers Summary:
In the years and decades following the Wright Brothers’ famous first flight, an obsession with aviation gripped the nation. Thousands caught the bug. In an era of innovation and invention, scores of people pursued their own personal dreams of building a flying machine, and many did so right in their own backyards. Few stories, though, are as remarkable as that of Cromwell Dixon, a fourteen-year-old boy who successfully designed, built and flew what he dubbed his “Sky-Cycle”—literally a flying bicycle, that he could fully steer, and that he flew thousands of feet in the air.

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ISBN
978-0-39925-041-5
Publisher
Putnam Juvenile


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on July 1, 2009

Gr 2-5 In 1907, a 14-year-old boy named Cromwell Dixon took to the sky in a flying bicycle that he designed and built with the help of his mother. Nez re-creates his amazing feat in this lively account filled with informative and fascinating images. Despite disappointment (an early prototype caught fire) and mistakes (a too-heavy vehicle), the teen per...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2009

This picture book tells the true story of fourteen-year-old Cromwell Dixon's invention of a flying bicycle in 1907. The story takes re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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