Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars
Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars
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Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars

Written by Jonathan Roth
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5 - 9
Reading age
40
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Aug 20, 2024
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With NASA photos and playful illustrations throughout, here is an incredible slice of hidden history and an immersive introduction to the science of air and space for all ages. 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 bicycle mechanics had purchased in 1903. Fifty-two years after that, in 2021, a remote-controlled car-sized explorer landed on Mars. Attached to the underside of a cable was a tiny piece of very old cloth–cloth that had almost become underwear. Almost Underwear is the story of that incredible piece of fabric, and the historic ‘firsts’ it stitches together.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780316525541
    Publication Date
    August 20, 2024
    Publisher
    Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette
    Page Count
    40
    Reading Age
    5 - 9 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2023014605

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