Author: St. Ignatius College (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Catalogue of St. Ignatius College, San Francisco, California for the Academic Year ...
Author: St. Ignatius College (San Francisco, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Catalogue of St. Ignatius College, San Francisco, California for the Academic Year ...
Author: University of San FranciscoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Classed List
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Library Bulletins
Author: Columbia University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Quest for Flight
Author: Craig S. HarwoodPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806187832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies. They show that history’s nearly exclusive focus on two brothers resulted from a lengthy public campaign the Wrights waged to profit from their aeroplane patent and create a monopoly in aviation. Countering the aspersions cast on Montgomery and his work, Harwood and Fogel build a solidly documented case for Montgomery’s pioneering role in aeronautical innovation. As a scientist researching the laws of flight, Montgomery invented basic methods of aircraft control and stability, refined his theories in aerodynamics over decades of research, and brought widespread attention to aviation by staging public demonstrations of his gliders. After his first flights near San Diego in the 1880s, his pursuit continued through a series of glider designs. These experiments culminated in 1905 with controlled flights in Northern California using tandem-wing Montgomery gliders launched from balloons. These flights reached the highest altitudes yet attained, demonstrated the effectiveness of Montgomery’s designs, and helped change society’s attitude toward what was considered “the impossible art” of aerial navigation. Inventors and aviators working west of the Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century have not received the recognition they deserve. Harwood and Fogel place Montgomery’s story and his exploits in the broader context of western aviation and science, shedding new light on the reasons that California was the epicenter of the American aviation industry from the very beginning.
Report of the Federal Security Agency
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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Report of the Commissioner of Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
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Annual Report of the Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Department of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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