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
Journals
Air Power History
Ohio History Journal
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
History and Technology
Publishers
Princeton University
University Press of Kentucky
University of Chicago Press
Southern Illinois University Press
Montana Historical Society Press
John Wiley & Sons
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Aircraft; airplanes
Technology
Balloons and ballooning
Military technology
Aircraft industry
People
Mouillard, Louis-Pierre
Rey, Adolphe Augustin
Wright brothers, Wilber and Orville
Torres Quevedo, Leonardo
Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
France
Americas
Spain
Japan
Germany
Institutions
United States Marine Corps
United States Air Force (USAF)
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