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Author : The American Aeronautic Society of New York
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00014303595
Author : Anon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781528766036
In the 21st century - the age of the budget airline - where quick and reliable air travel is available to a large segment of society, it seems hard to comprehend that it is less than 250 years since the first human took to the skies. Although the wing of the bird seemed like the most obvious natural mechanism to attempt replicate, it was actually contained hot air, as demonstrated by the Montgolfiers and their balloon, that gave birth to the era human aviation. Since the first manned balloon flight in 1783, developments have come thick and fast, the airship, the aeroplane, and finally the space shuttle. This reprint of a classic publication from 1879 contains a wealth of fascinating information on the early history of aviation. Complete with illustrations and a brand new introduction, it covers the adventures of the great aeronauts such as Coxwell and Rozier, and famous ascents like that of the Zenith. This is a wonderful work for anyone with an interest in the technology and events that defined the lighter-than-air period of aeronautics.
Author : Library of Congress. Division of Aeronautics,Nils Henrik Randers-Pehrson,Arthur George Renstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UCAL:B4263486
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:49015002848787
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:$B323801
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117841044
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082905434
Author : Windham William Sadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590868230
Author : E. Charles Vivian
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732624966
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Willis John Abbot
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465504920
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428994928
Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907
Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperPress
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0007476515
FALLING UPWARDS is a vivid group biography and adventure that tells how men and women first felt as they rose towards the clouds into a new dimension - of science, exploration, warfare, literature, discovery.Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard; the revelatory ascents over sprawling Victorian industrial cities of Northern Europe; and the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise, and the French photographer Felix Nadar. Later we find balloons used to observe the horrors of battle during the American Civil War (including a memorable flight by General Custer); the tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during the Prussian siege of 1870; and the terrifying seven mile high flight - without oxygen - of James Glaisher, helping to establish the science of meteorology and the environmental notion of a 'fragile' planet. Readers will also discover the writers - from Mary Shelley to Edgar Alan Poe, Dickens to Verne - who allowed the imaginative impact of flight to soar in their work. In exploring the interplay between technology and science fiction, the understanding of the biosphere, and the metaphysics of flight itself, Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavour, recklessness and vision.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : IND:30000139849909
Author : Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0160901103
"Since its earliest days, flight has been about pushing the limits of technology and, in many cases, pushing the limits of human endurance. The human body can be the limiting factor in the design of aircraft and spacecraft. Humans cannot survive unaided at high altitudes. There have been a number of books written on the subject of spacesuits, but the literature on the high-altitude pressure suits is lacking. This volume provides a high-level summary of the technological development and operational use of partial- and full-pressure suits, from the earliest models to the current high altitude, full-pressure suits used for modern aviation, as well as those that were used for launch and entry on the Space Shuttle. The goal of this work is to provide a resource on the technology for suits designed to keep humans alive at the edge of space."--NTRS Web site.