Book ID: CBB000067207

Turbulent skies: The history of commercial aviation (1995)

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Heppenheimer, T. A. (Author)


Wiley


Publication Date: 1995
Physical Details: xii + 388 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Ferguson, R.G. (1999) Review of "Turbulent skies: The history of commercial aviation". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 399-400). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Graham M. Simons
Howlett, Alexander
De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan
Proceedings, National Aerospace Conference
Vincenti, Walter G.
Spenser, Jay P.
Journals
Technology and Culture
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Johann Beckmann-Journal
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
American Historical Review
Publishers
Air World
Wright State University
Texas Tech University
University of Washington Press
Texas A&M University Press
Smithsonian Institution Press
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Flight
Engineering, naval
Technology and culture
Technology and war; technology and the military
Balloons and ballooning
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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