Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The Family's Defender Magazine and Educational Review
Author: Quest for Flight
Author: Gary B. FogelPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806187816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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.
Errors in School Books
Author: Albert Augustus PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Pedagogical Section of the University Library
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
American Ecclesiastical Review
Author: Critical Issues in School-based Mental Health
Author: Melissa K. HoltPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131768740X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2017! School-based mental health professionals intervene daily to address a variety of student mental health concerns. From challenges that arise in the educational context to those carried over from home, from managing daily care to handling emergent traumatic events, they must be prepared for an extremely varied work life. While some of the most common issues recur with such frequency that they may seem straightforward to address, others crop up with changing student populations. Each chapter in this volume addresses a different key topic, giving current and future professionals an overview of the most recent scholarship on the topic, and then outlining evidence-based interventions. With chapters on learning disabilities, substance abuse, bullying, internalizing and externalizing behaviors, trauma, LGBT youth and more, this book prepares school-based mental health professionals to face some of the most difficult, common, and politicized issues affecting students today.
Senate Journal
Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. SenatePublisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Ecclesiastical Review ...
Author: Herman Joseph HeuserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
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Author: Albert Shaw