Book ID: CBB000102159

Balloons to Jets: A Century of Aeronautics in Illinois, 1855-1955 (2000)

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Scamehorn, H. Lee (Author)


Southern Illinois University Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: viii + 271 pp., illus., ports., facsims., tables
Language: English

Description Reprint of 1957 edition, Chicago: H. Regnery Co., Series: llinois State Historical Society. Occasional Publications, 52. New Foreword by Gene Abney. Covers amateur pilots, aviation contests and meets, the development of airmail, military aeronautics, commercial air transport, the expansion of airports, flyers and flying achievements, and state and federal regulation of aeronautics.


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Authors & Contributors
Brady, Tim
George Stoll
Wray R. Johnson
Nord, Philip G.
De Oliveira, Patrick Luiz Sullivan
Ramirez, Enrique Gualberto, III
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Aircraft; airplanes
Technology
Balloons and ballooning
Military technology
Aircraft industry
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
France
Americas
Spain
Japan
Montana (U.S.)
Institutions
United States Marine Corps
United States Air Force (USAF)
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