Official Guide To The Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781588342676

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Official Guide to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Third Edition by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

This fully illustrated guide to the world's most-visited aviation and space museum is both an indispensable companion for visitors and a detailed history in itself of humanity's quest for flight. The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum maintains the world's largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft plus an amazing assortment of other historic objects. Many fascinating items from the twenty-three galleries and two off-site facilities—including the Wright Flyer, Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1, and the spacesuits worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin—are presented here in 200 full-color photographs, accompanied by their equally intriguing stories.

Author : National Air and Space Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aeronautical museums
ISBN : OCLC:1412645905

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Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by National Air and Space Museum Pdf

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781588345424

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Official Guide to the Smithsonian by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

The Smithsonian Institution holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the museums and galleries on the National Mall, in the Washington metropolitan area, and in New York City presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information, ensuring a rewarding visit. Each detailed section presents the history of the museums and offers a fully illustrated, gallery-by-gallery tour. All the practical information--location, hours, phone numbers, public transportation, services, tours, dining, gift shops, special attractions for children, web site addresses--is also included. With so much to see and do, this is the definitive source of all the information in one place.

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781588345431

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Official Guide to the Smithsonian, 4th Edition by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

The Smithsonian Institution holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the museums and galleries on the National Mall, in the Washington metropolitan area, and in New York City presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information, ensuring a rewarding visit. Each detailed section presents the history of the museums and offers a fully illustrated, gallery-by-gallery tour. All the practical information--location, hours, phone numbers, public transportation, services, tours, dining, gift shops, special attractions for children, web site addresses--is also included. With so much to see and do, this is the definitive source of all the information in one place.

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215330478

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Official Guide to the Smithsonian, Third Ed by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

Introduces the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum complex, poviding floor plans for the various branches, information on hours, public transportation, tours, special attractions for children, and highlights from some of its major exhibits.

Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781588347169

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Official Guide to the Smithsonian, 5th Edition by Smithsonian Institution Pdf

The go-to guide for visitors who want to maximize their experience at the Smithsonian’s 19 museums and National Zoo The Smithsonian holds more than 155 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. The Official Guide to the Smithsonian makes navigating the world’s largest museum complex more efficient and fulfilling. Featuring a huge amount of history, highlights, and pertinent museum information, the colorful guide is designed to enrich time spent in the Smithsonian’s incredible galleries and museums on the National Mall, the Washington metropolitan area, and New York City. The new 2021 edition features major updates for all the museums. This includes a full treatment of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the most recent Smithsonian museum, as well as the Deep Time hall at the National Museum of Natural History, their new fossil hall that displays towering fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures to explore the epic story of Earth. Each detailed section presents the history of the museum and offers a fully illustrated, gallery-by-gallery tour. It also includes all the practical information such as location, hours, phone numbers, public transportation, services, tours, dining, gift shops, special attractions for children, and website addresses. With so much to see and do across the vast Smithsonian collections, this is the definitive source of information in one place.

Author : Judith E. Rinard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554072751

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Book of Flight by Judith E. Rinard Pdf

The major milestones in flight history illustrated from the collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum -- includes glossary and illustrated explanations of concepts behind the technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201919

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Bombs Away! by Anonim Pdf

Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand the contours and historical context of the debates about the German public discourse on the bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators and victims. The volume will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and the general reading public interested in warfare and its effects on civilian populations.

Author : Wilfried Wilms,William Rasch
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042017597

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Bombs Away! by Wilfried Wilms,William Rasch Pdf

Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand the contours and historical context of the debates about the German public discourse on the bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators and victims. The volume will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and the general reading public interested in warfare and its effects on civilian populations.

Author : Tony Reichhardt
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781588347398

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Smithsonian Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum by Tony Reichhardt Pdf

Get up close and personal with iconic aviation and space artifacts from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, the world's largest and most noteworthy collection Smithsonian Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum is a spectacularly illustrated, full-color guide to the most impressive, important, and interesting artifacts from the museum's vast collection. The book moves through chronological chapters, from the flight of kites, balloons, and the first airplanes, to 21st-century space tourism and NASA's new Artemis program. Each chapter features photographs and rich history on incredible objects that captivate visitors on a daily basis, including: Taking Flight: Early balloons and the 1903 Wright Flyer Aviation Goes to War: World War I aircraft and Eddie Rickenbacker's uniform The Shrinking Globe: Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and Robert Goddard’s liquid-fuel rocket World War II: P-51 Mustang, B-26 bomber, and other iconic warbirds Jet Age Meets Space Age (Postwar): Chuck Yeager’s flight jacket and Alan Shepard's spacesuit The Moon and Beyond: Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit and the Apollo lunar module Pushing Boundaries: The Hubble Space Telescope and Boeing 747 Into the Future: Starship Enterprise from Star Trek and the Merlin engine from SpaceX Skip the crowds and enjoy the most engaging and revolutionary objects the museum has to offer! Smithsonian Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum is a sweeping tribute to more than a century's worth of aviation and space history that shows how far we've come and how far we can go.

Author : National Air and Space Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 1853674907

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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes, Their Designers and Manufacturers by National Air and Space Museum Pdf

-- A unique and indispensable reference book on the aircraft of the world -- An up-to-date and comprehensive guide This valuable directory contains a wealth of data on the history of aviation and attempts, for the first time, to identify every aircraft manufacturer and designer and every aircraft produced. This indispensable reference book is a comprehensive guide to the sheer number and variety of aircraft produced in the last hundred years. The directory has thousands of entries with, for each manufacturer or designer, the names of all the classes of aircraft produced (powered fixed-wing, unpowered fixed-wing, powered-rotor rotor craft and unpowered-rotor rotor craft). Entries are cross-referenced and brief histories of important companies have been added to enable the researcher to chart mergers, closures, and name changes. Significant nicknames and code names are also detailed. This valuable and unique book presents a vast, official array of data in an accessible form and is an essential reference book for any aviation enthusiast.

Author : David A. Romanowski,Melissa A. N. Keiser
Publisher : Bunker Hill Pub Incorporated
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1593730837

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The Legacy of Flight by David A. Romanowski,Melissa A. N. Keiser Pdf

Uses photographs from the holdings of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to provide an illustrated history of man's quest for flight.

Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1585442410

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One Hundred Years of Air Power and Aviation by Robin Higham Pdf

In this precise, interpretive and informative volume, Higham looks at everything from the roots of strategic bombing and tactical air power to the lessons learned and unlearned during the invasion of Ethiopia, the war in China and the Spanish Civil War. He also considers the problems posed by jet aircraft in Korea and the use of Patriot missiles in the Persian Gulf. He covers anti-guerrilla operations, doctrine, industrial activities and equipment, as well as the development of commercial airlines.

Author : Daniel Sage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317120797

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How Outer Space Made America by Daniel Sage Pdf

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. In so doing, he traces the development of a seductive, and powerful, yet complex and unstable American geographical imagination: the ’transcendental state’. Historical and indeed contemporary space exploration is, despite some recent notable exceptions, worthy of more attention across the social sciences and humanities. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.

Author : F. Robert van der Linden
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781588345813

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Best of the National Air and Space Museum by F. Robert van der Linden Pdf

Experience the thrill of flying some of the world's most important airplanes and spacecraft. Best of the National Air and Space Museum provides unprecedented access to the most popular museum in the world. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum hosts an average of seven million visits every year. The Udvar-Hazy Center—three football fields long and ten stories high—receives more than one million visits annually. Best of the National Air and Space Museum features the best of both museums, from the Challenger space shuttle and the Wright flyer to the Spirit of St. Louis and the stealth bomber. Robert Van der Linden, curator of aeronautics, has selected the most important, popular, and just plain impressive aircraft and spacecraft from the collections of both museums to be showcased in this beautiful book. Each page spread includes intriguing facts of the item's design, use, mission, specifications, and dimensions. A must-have for space and aviation buffs.