# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ? FREE • Flight at Any Cost • A Presentation by Best-Selling Author Burton W. Folsom, Jr., Ph.D
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Burton W. Folsom Jr., Ph.D.—a professor, economic historian, best-selling author, and distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College—will present "Flight at Any Cost: The Dramatic Race to Invent the Airplane" on Oct. 21, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at Carillon Historical Park. The talk recounts the quests of Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Wright brothers to achieve the world’s first powered flight.

In his book, "Uncle Sam Can’t Count," co-authored with his wife Anita Folsom, Dr. Folsom, a scholar of free-market capitalism, devotes a chapter titled "The Wright Brothers Conquer the Air," as he compares Langley’s subsidized work to that of Dayton’s self-funded, self-taught bicycle makers. The book examines the history of government subsidies in the U.S., noting that such programs have sometimes struggled to achieve their goals. 

An eminent economic historian, Dr. Folsom appears regularly on news programs and is the author of ten books, including "FDR Goes to War" and "The Myth of the Robber Barons," now in its ninth edition.

ADMISSION: FREE
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Dayton
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1000 Carillon Blvd, Dayton, OH, United States, Ohio 45409
- **lat**: 39.72885
- **long**: -84.19821
- **full address**: 1000 Carillon Blvd, Dayton, OH, United States, Ohio 45409

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- **organizer**: Carillon Historical Park (https://allevents.in/org/carillon-historical-park/26002916)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1000 Carillon Blvd, Dayton, OH, United States, Ohio 45409
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Carillon Historical Park
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