Book ID: CBB000006024

The history of man-powered flight (1977)

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Reay, David A. (Author)


Pergamon


Publication Date: 1977
Physical Details: 355 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

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Review Higham, R. (1978) Review of "The history of man-powered flight". Science (pp. 673-74). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Graham M. Simons
Howlett, Alexander
De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan
Proceedings, National Aerospace Conference
Zaidi, Waqar H.
Vincenti, Walter G.
Journals
Technology and Culture
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of Contemporary History
Johann Beckmann-Journal
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Air World
Wright State University
Texas Tech University
University of Washington Press
Texas A&M University Press
Smithsonian Institution Press
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Science and war; science and the military
Flight
Engineering, naval
Technology and culture
Technology and war; technology and the military
People
Wright brothers, Wilber and Orville
Wattendorf, Frank L.
Pilcher, Percy
Messerschmitt, Willy
Brewer, Griffith
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Americas
China
Institutions
United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
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