Book ID: CBB000030981

An ancient air: A biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, the Victorian aeronautical pioneer (1989)

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Penrose, Harald (Author)


Smithsonian Institution Press


Publication Date: 1989
Physical Details: 183 pp.; illus.; index

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Review Riper, A.B. Van (1990) Review of "An ancient air: A biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, the Victorian aeronautical pioneer". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 792). unapi

Review Edgerton, D. (1990) Review of "An ancient air: A biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, the Victorian aeronautical pioneer". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 340). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Crouch, Tom D.
Bossoh, Nathan
De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan
Zukowski, Henri
Zheltova, E. L.
Wenzel, Manfred
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific American
Revue des Sciences Humaines
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of Florida
Norton
McClelland & Stewart
Ianus-K
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Technology
Aircraft; airplanes
Inventors and invention
Societies; institutions; academies
Military research
People
Cayley, George
Griffith, George Chetwynd (1857-1906)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Wright brothers, Wilber and Orville
Mozhaiskii, Aleksandr Feodorovich
Lilienthal, Karl Wilhelm Otto
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
England
Americas
United States
Russia
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