The airplane : how ideas gave us wings
Spenser, Jay P.2009
Book
The inside story of how people invented and refined the airplane.
Main title:
The airplane : how ideas gave us wings / Jay Spenser.
Author:
Edition:
1st Harper pbk. ed.
Imprint:
New York : Harper, 2009, c2008.
Collation:
xii, 340 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Smithsonian books.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Conception: the thinker and the dreamer -- Birth: Wilbur, Orville, and the world -- Configuration: shapes and ideas -- Fuselage: of drums and dragonflies -- Wings, part I : from box kites to bridges -- Wings, part II : cloud-cutting cantilevers -- Empennage: whale flukes and arrow feathers -- Flight controls: the chariot's reins -- Flight deck: cockpits for aerial ships -- Aero propulsion: prometheus is pushing -- Landing gear: shoes, canoes, and carriage wheels -- Passenger cabin: voyaging aloft -- Systems integration: making flying safer -- Today's state of the art: the Boeing 787 Dreamliner -- Postscript: tomorrow's wings: future air travel technologies.
ISBN:
9780061259203
Dewey class:
629.13334629.1333
Language:
English
BRN:
39197
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Science and Nature | SCIENCE 629.1333 SPEN | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Science and Nature | SCIENCE 629.1333 SPEN | Available |