Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905
Author | : Smithsonian Institution |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution |
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Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Tim Brady |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809323715 |
This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America. The seventeen chapters in The American Aviation Experience: A History range chronologically from ancient times through the Wright brothers through both world wars, culminating with the development of the U.S. space program. Contributors also cover balloons and dirigibles, African American pioneers in aviation, and women in aviation. These essayists--leading scholars in the field--present the history of aviation mainly from an American perspective. The American Aviation Experience includes 335 black-and-white photographs, two maps, and an appendix, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Science of Flight.."
Author | : James R. Hansen |
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Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Aerodynamics |
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Author | : James R. Hansen |
Publisher | : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Volume 1 relates the story of the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers and the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the United States.
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Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Aerodynamics |
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Author | : Peter L. Jakab |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588345491 |
For the first time, nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings are brought together in a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their aircraft, early test flights, and camp life at Kitty Hawk. Because Wilbur's sudden death in 1912 ended any hope that the Wrights would produce a book of their own, the articles collected in this volume are their only published words.
Author | : James Tobin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439135495 |
James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths—Langley’s toward oblivion, the Wrights’ toward the heavens—though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian’s accuracy and a novelist’s eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
Author | : Virginia Parker Dawson |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160831515 |
These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.