| | Book | Save | | 1 | Title: | Progress in flying machines
| | | | Creator: | Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910 | | | | Publication: | American Engineer and Railroad Journal, New York,1899. | | | | Notes: | A series of 27 articles, which appeared in the Railroad and engineering journal ( now the American engineer) of New York City, beginning Oct., 1891. cf. Pref. Appendiix: The flight of the Albatross. Paper read before the Balloon Society, October 3, 1884. By Thomas Moy.--The flying man. The carrying capacity of arched surfaces in sailing flight. By Otto Lilienthal. (Tr. from Zeitschrift fèur luftschiffahrt und physik der atomsphèare for Nov., 1893) | | | | Call #: | TL670.5 C459 | | | | Extent: | iv, 308 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Navigation (Aeronautics) | Flying-machines -- History | Aeronautics -- History
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| Book | Save | | 2 | Title: | Conquest of the air by airships and other flying machines: being a comprehensive history of aerial navigation, with graphic accounts of thrilling flights, daring dashes and desperate courage, hairbreadth escapes in the whirling eddies of upper currents, plunges to death from airships a mile in the clouds, battling with the elements and out-stripping the fastest express trains
| | | | Creator: | Mowbray, Jay Henry. | | | | Publication: | National Pub. Co.?], Philadelphia, Pa.?,1910. | | | | Notes: | "Marvelous achievements of the bird men ... how to build and sail an aeroplane ... next great war will be in the air." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1910, by Geo. W. Bertron"--t.p. verso. | | | | Call #: | TL547 M937 | | | | Extent: | viii, 17-400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics | Airplanes | Flying-machines -- History
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