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

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

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Did you know that a piece of cloth from the Wright Brothers' Flyer has travelled to the moon, and Mars?

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. A Junior Library Guild Selection

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