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The apocryphal work known as the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs professes to be, as its name implies, the utterances of the dying patriarchs, the sons of Jacob. In these, they give some account of their lives, embodying particulars not found in the scriptural account, and build thereupon various moral precepts for the guidance of their descendants. The book partakes also of the nature of an Apocalypse: The patriarchs see in the future their children doing wickedly, stained with the sins of every nation, and thus they foretell the troubles impending on their race.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the first power-driven machine ever to achieve sustained flight rose to the sky and soared through the air for a distance of 120 feet. Orville Wright was at the controls; Wilbur Wright balanced the machine at the take-off. As short as this flight was, it nevertheless marked the beginning of humanity’s conquest of the air. The audiobook describes the lives of the Wright Brothers and gives the history of their development of the airplane, also called the "flying machine".