. . "Tobin???s 2003 book, ???To Conquer the Air,??? was ranked third, following ???Longitude??? by Dava Sobel and ???The Making of the Atomic Bomb??? by Richard Rhodes. ???To Conquer the Air??? is the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright in early 20th-century America and the competition they faced from other top inventors of the time, including Alexander Graham Bell and Glenn Curtiss, to be the first alo" . . .