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| Prologue: Dinner on the Ceiling Champs-Elysees, 1903 | 1 | |
| 1 | Arrival Minas Gerais, 1873 | 9 |
| 2 | "A Most Dangerous Place for a Boy" Paris, 1891 | 26 |
| 3 | First Flight Vaugirard, 1897 | 40 |
| 4 | Dying for Science Paris, 1899 | 69 |
| 5 | The Turkey Buzzard's Secret | 90 |
| 6 | An Afternoon in the Rothschilds' Chestnut Tree Paris, 1901 | 102 |
| 7 | "It Is the Poor Who Will Suffer!" The Eiffel Tower, 1901 | 127 |
| 8 | "Making Armies a Jest" | 150 |
| 9 | An Unwelcome Dip in the Mediterranean Bay of Monaco, 1902 | 161 |
| 10 | "Airship Is Useless, Says Lord Kelvin" London and New York, 1902 | 178 |
| 11 | The World's First Aerial Car Paris, 1903 | 207 |
| 12 | A Scurrilous Stabbing and a Russian Bribe St. Louis, 1904 | 234 |
| 13 | "Aeroplane Raised by Small Motor, M. Santos-Dumont Performs a Feat Never Before Attained in Europe" Paris, 1906 | 251 |
| 14 | "A War of Engineers and Chemists" | 278 |
| 15 | "Cavalry of the Clouds" | 292 |
| 16 | Departure Guaruja, 1932 | 301 |
| Postmortem: In Search of a Heart Campo dos Afonsos, 2000 | 312 | |
| Origins and Acknowledgments | 317 | |
| Notes | 323 | |
| What Santos-Dumont Wrote | 349 | |
| What Santos-Dumont Read | 351 | |
| What Santos-Dumont Made | 353 | |
| Index | 359 |
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Ken Jensen
reviewed Wings Of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont And The Invention Of Flight on August 02, 2020 Wings Of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont And The Invention Of Flight
I thoroughly enjoyed this biography on Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian inventor who greatly contributed to the development of aeronautics. The photographs were interesting, and I would like to find more.
💥Recommended.
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