From a review in The Wall Street Journal of The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (reviewed by Roger Lowenstein, “The Workingest Boys,” 5/5/15):
Other would-be aviation pioneers were gentlemen enthusiasts (i.e., they were rich). Not the Wrights. “In no way,” Mr. McCullough writes in one of his utterly affecting sentences, “did any of this discourage or deter Wilber and Orville Wright, any more than the fact that they had no college education, no formal technical training, no experience working with anyone other than themselves, no government subsidies, and little money of their own.”
That kind of self-reliant determination was behind America’s Industrial Revolution. See “History Lessons,” SLL, 4/23/15, and Robert Gore’s novel of the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Pinnacle.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 