Crouch, 1981

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Crouch, Tom D. A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875–1905. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1981. ISBN 0-393-01385-5

Key figures: Wright Brothers, Octave Chanute, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Augustus Moore Herring.

A chapter on Aeronautical Navigation Conference at 1893 World's Fair, a chapter on "Boston: The Third Circle" (Abbott Lawrence Rotch, Samuel Cabot, James Means et al.), and a chapter on Otto Lilienthal's influence in America.