The book, The Wright Brothers And The Invention Of The Aerial Age, is the official companion volume to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversery of the famous flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  This richly illustrated book tells the strange and fasinating story of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their race to perfect human flight.  The authors, reveal in reat detail, the Wright's obsessions, achievements and moments of history-making success.  They paint a vivid picture of the two eccentric geniouses and the world of pioneering aviation in which they operated.  This book includes the following chapters: 1) Seeds Of Genious; 2) Building Wings; 3) Riding The Winds; 4) The Kitty Hawk Years; 5) The Aerial Age Begins; 6) The Wright Brothers And The World; 7) Politics, Patents And Planes; and 8) Orville Alone.  The authors also provide a Bibliography, an Index and Acknowledgements along with Picture Credits.  Included in this book are many period black and white photographs which help document the Wright Brothers journey from Dayton, Ohio bicycle makers to aviation pioneers.  This book is 240 pages and is in excellent condition.  The authors are Tom D. Crouch and Peter L. Jakab.  Edition published in 2003.