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Author : Dana Bell
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000122510211
A world history of flight provides a lavishly illustrated tour of everything from wartime air campaigns to the latest experimental planes, in an oversized volume that is complemented by descriptive charts and flight-pattern layouts.
Author : Tina Frolund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610694322
Make history come alive! This book helps librarians and teachers as well as readers themselves find books they will enjoy—titles that will animate and explain the past, entertain, and expand their minds. This invaluable resource offers reading lists of contemporary and classic non-fiction history books and historical fiction, covering all time periods throughout the world, and including practically all manner of human endeavors. Every book included is hand-selected as an entertaining and enlightening read! Organized by appeal characteristics, this book will help readers zero in on the history books they will like best—for instance, titles that emphasize character, tell a specific type of historical story, convey a mood, or are presented in a particular setting. Every book listed has been recommended based on the author's research, and has proved to be a satisfying and worthwhile read.
Author : Walter J. Boyne
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0517118505
Text and photos combine to describe eight decades of aeronautic history.
Author : F. Robert van der Linden,Alex M. Spencer,Thomas J. Paone
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760351512
Experience the history of flight with the world-class aviation collection at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, which attracts millions and millions of visitors each year in Washington, D.C.From the moment the Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 to the modern-day reliance on stealth aircraft and drones, there have been significant advances made in aviation. Milestones of Flight celebrates each era of advancements by showcasing the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's world-class aircraft collection. Authored by Dr. Robert van der Linden, a leading expert on aviation and Chairman of the Aeronautics Department at the NASM, this book is a stunning profile of the advancements in flight from decade to decade, illustrated with beautiful, large-scale photography and enhanced with little-known facts, anecdotes, and insights from major players in the aviation industry.Climb inside the cockpit of the Spirit of St. Louis that Charles Lindbergh piloted solo across the Atlantic Ocean, making history. Contrast that with a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The full-page photos of each milestone-making aircraft are accompanied by timelines to showcase related aircraft as well as sidebars with interesting and little-known facts, stories, and related research.Milestone categories include:- Era of Early Flight- World War I First Fighters- Long-Range Record-Setting Flight- Popular Flight- First Commercial Airliners- World War II Aircraft- Experimental Flight- Cold War Military/Korean Conflict Aircraft- Commercial Jets- Modern Military AircraftWhat will the next milestone be?
Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226534633
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. Rooted in ancient Egypt’s need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile’s floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier classic, including the wry observations and witty humor. In the end, Monmonier looks far beyond the lines on the page to observe that mapped boundaries, however persuasive their appearance, are not always as permanent and impermeable as their cartographic lines might suggest. Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly. No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.
Author : Robert Bluffield
Publisher : Tattered Flag
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780957689268
This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story of dedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and public alike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors of heavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in 1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919 a British company made the first international scheduled flight between London and Paris, but the continuation of regular services was thwarted by a less-than-enthusiastic government that allowed its generously subsidised French competition, for a short time at least, to fly cross-Channel passenger schedules unimpeded. The British eventually realzed that fast links with their Empire were vital, followed the example of the French and Dutch who had forged air links with their cousins in North Africa and the Far East. Meanwhile, in South America, the Germans, forbidden under the Versailles Treaty from any major aircraft-building, were establishing cunning supremacy by forming airlines throughout South America and in China. While America awaited a transcontinental passenger service, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways was crossing swords with Ralph O'Neill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) for air supremacy between the US, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America that led to the formation of arguably the world's greatest airline. In Russia, Igor Sikorsky had built a vast passenger-carrying aircraft, the Il'ya Muromets, and politicians debated whether giant airships or fixed-wing aircraft should rule the skies _ an issue that was put firmly to bed when the mighty German airship Hindenburg exploded while mooring at Lakehurst in 1937. Robert BluffieldÍs highly researched and detailed account tells the dramatic stories of explorers such as Kingsford Smith, Lindbergh and Cobham, and flamboyant entrepreneurs, some well known, others forgotten, who risked fortunes and reputations to follow their dreams of reaching and ruling the skies over empires, continents and oceans. Against bewildering adversity, corruption, underhanded deals and dwindling resources, these tenacious individuals braved the elements using primitive, entirely unsuitable equipment to establish earth-shrinking aerial services that criss-crossed the great oceans and the globe's most inhospitable territories. These are the stories of those pioneers _ of A_ropostale, CNAC, Air Orient, Imperial Airways, KLM, Deutsche Luft Hansa, Pan Am, SCADTA, The Condor Syndicat, Qantas and others that had a far-reaching impact on the way the modern world would travel.
Author : John T. Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041044293
Over 400 illustrations and text by aviation historians and aeronautical experts recall historic achievements in flight.
Author : Roger D. Launius,Andrew Kenneth Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Outer space
ISBN : 1593730721
Discover the entire story of humankind's efforts in space exploration, from the earliest theories of the universe to the captivating successes and advances - as well as the setbacks - of the past fifty years. Filled with hundreds of satellite images, photographs from NASA, charts, newly commissioned maps, the Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration illuminates in stunning colour our exploration into space - the final frontier. Published in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum - the world's leading authority on aviation and space, this is the ultimate illustrated account of the past, present, and future of space exploration.
Author : John T. Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517076241
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Research
ISBN : UCBK:C102862622
Author : F. Robert van der Linden
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781588345813
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.
Author : Intitute Smithsonian
Publisher : Trident
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-18
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 0883633167
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : PSU:000055240000
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490802598
Author : Francis J. Field Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015023148458
