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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Aerial Age Weekly
Author: THE AERIAL AGE
Author: WALTER WELLMANThe Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age
Author: Tom D. CrouchPublisher: National Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Presents a biography of the Wright brothers, focusing on their systematic research of flight mechanics which proved the key to their success.
Taking Flight
Author: Richard P. HallionPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190289597
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact--from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's historic flight on December 17, 1903--has been extraordinary. Richard Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. The result is an interpretive history of uncommon sweep, complexity, and warmth. Taking care to place each technological advance in the context of its own period as well as that of the evolving era of air travel, this ground-breaking work follows the pre-history of flight, the work of balloon and airship advocates, fruitless early attempts to invent the airplane, the Wright brothers and other pioneers, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, and finally the transfer of prophecy into practice as flight came to play an ever-more important role in world affairs, both military and civil. Making extensive use of extracts from the journals, diaries, and memoirs of the pioneers themselves, and interspersing them with a wide range or rare photographs and drawings, Taking Flight leads readers to the laboratories and airfields where aircraft were conceived and tested. Forcefully yet gracefully written in rich detail and with thorough documentation, this book is certain to be the standard reference for years to come on how humanity came to take to the sky, and what the Aerial Age has meant to the world since da Vinci's first fantastical designs.
Aerial Age Weekly
Author: Aerial Age Weekly
Author: Aerial Age
Author: Airport Landscape
Author: Sonja DuempelmannPublisher: Harvard Design Studies
ISBN: 9781934510476
Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Airports are central to the life of cities but have remained relatively peripheral in design discourse. In Airport Landscape, case study projects for the ecological enhancement of operating airports and the conversion of abandoned airports demonstrate, through a range of practices, the significance of airports as sites of design
Industrial Arts Index
Author: Taking Flight
Author: Richard HallionPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Uses extracts from journals, diaries, and memoirs, as well as rare photographs and drawings, to provide a history of humanity's attempts at flight, including kites, balloons, rockets, and steerable airships.