Author: Archibald WilliamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Conquering the Air
Author: Archibald WilliamsConquering the Air
Author: Archibald WilliamsPublisher: Cgr Publishing
ISBN: 9781592180974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Revisit the romantic age of aeronautics when the rapid development of balloons, dirigibles and airplanes changed the world forever. Archibald Williams wrote this entertaining and informative journey through the early days of air travel for readers of all ages in 1926, covering the earliest ascents in balloons through the Wright Brothers, trans-Atlantic flights. The special edition enlarged reprinting includes: - Enlarged 7" x 10" pages - Crisp digitally re-scanned and enhanced images - Bold new cover design - Author's original page layouts - Classic type font - English printing with illustration captions Chapter by chapter Williams chronicles the feats and failures of those legendary pioneers of flight with enthusiasm and an eye towards the future, where he envisions a time when a "machine will be able to alight vertically in a space no larger than the back garden of a small suburban villa, or on a flat roof." Enjoy an informative look at the earliest ascents of balloons, dirigibles, and the first crossings that made history. The rapid development of the mechanical airplane is covered with great interest, as is its application in commercial air travel, exploration, and warfare. For readers looking to enjoy a broad, illustrated overview of airplanes and the history of air travel, Conquering the Air is a delight to read. "We shall devote our attention first to the origin of the spherical balloons and to the most notable voyages made in them. Next, we shall see how the balloon was altered in form, provided with motive power of its own, and converted from a mere gas-container and a self-directing aerial ship. Then follows an account of the experiments which led to the production of the first practical flying machine; to be succeeded by a series of chapters devoted to those fights, of successively increasing length, which, as first exemplifying the conquest of the air the grand scale, may justly be termed epoch-making." Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Early Balloon Ascents Chapter 2: Further Ascents in Fire-Balloons Chapter 3: The Coming of the Gas Balloon Chapter 4: The First Balloon Ascents in Great Britain Chapter 5: The First Crossing of the Channel by Air Chapter 6: Famous Balloon Voyages Chapter 7: The Coming of the Dirigible Balloon Chapter 8: The First Attack on the Atlantic Chapter 9: Pioneers of Mechanical Flight Chapter 10: The First Crossing of the English Channel by Aeroplane Chapter 11: From London to Manchester Chapter 12: A Splendid Future Chapter 13: The First Crossing of the Atlantic by Air Chapter 14: A Magnificent Success Chapter 15: To New York and Back Chapter 16: From London to Australia Chapter 17: From Cairo to the Cape Chapter 18: The First Non-stop Flight Across America Chapter 19: Aircraft in the Polar Regions Chapter 20: The First Flight Around the World Chapter 21: From Italy to Japan and Back Chapter 22: From Spain to Buenos Aires Chapter 23: Lifebelts of the Air Chapter 24: Aircraft in War Chapter 25: Airways Chapter 26: Uses for Aircraft Chapter 27: The Future of Flying About the Publisher: The CGR Publishing Restoration Workshop uses a vast array of computers and digital scanners to restore, preserve, and enhance the classic works of writers and artists from the 19th century. Each new release includes display-quality covers, enlarged covers, and retro fonts. Select books include Dante's Inferno Retro Hell-Bound Edition, Gustave Dorè's London: A Pilgrimage, The Complete Book of Birds, A Life of George Westinghouse, The Clock Book: A Detailed Illustrated Collection of Classic Clocks, The Aeroplane Speaks, and much more.
To Conquer the Air
Author: James TobinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780684856889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Based on extraordinary research in the rich archives of American aviation, and written by one of the nation's most gifted narrative historians, "To Conquer the Air" brings to life one of history's most exciting contests.
To Conquer the Air
Author: James TobinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780786257225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly -- men who wanted it passionately, fecklessly, hopelessly. But now, at the turn of the twentieth century, Wilbur Wright and a scattered handful of other adventurers conceived a conviction that the dream lay at last within reach, and in a headlong race across ten years and two continents, they competed to conquer the air. James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, has at last given this inspiring story its definitive telling. For years Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in utter obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as the imperious Samuel Langley, armed with a rich contract from the U.S. War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to scale up his unmanned models to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley became obsessed with flight as a problem of power, the Wrights grappled with it as a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths -- his toward oblivion, theirs toward the heavens.
Conquering the Air
Author: Archibald WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Conquering the Air
Author: Archibald WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258810443
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Conquest of the Air
Author: Alphonse BergetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Conquering the Air
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Chiefly newsclippings and some magazine articles on aviation, in California and elsewhere. Many clippings include illustration. Also includes four photographs of planes in flight; a handbill; and the July 1915 issue of Aircraft. Includes handwritten annotation. Most articles are from California newspapers--San Francisco and Sacramento.
The Conquest of the Air
Author: Cecil Leonard Morley BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Author: Richard Ferris