Book ID: CBB000651582

Reconsidering a Century of Flight (2003)

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Bednarek, Janet R. Daly (Editor)
Launius, Roger D. (Editor)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xii + 300 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents (from WorldCat): Roger D. Launius, Janet R. Daly Bednarek, “Whither a Century of Flight”; Roger E. Bilstein, “The Technology of Flight: Three Sides of a Coin”; Roger D. Launius, “The Wright Brothers, Government Support for Aeronautical Research, and the Evolution of Flight”; Hans-Joachim Braun, “Innovation in Flight from the Perspective of Europe”; David D. Lee, “Herbert Hoover and Commercial Aviation Policy, 1921--1933”; W. David Lewis, “A Perennial Challenge to Aviation Safety: Battling the Menace of Ice”; William M. Leary, “Edward V. Rickenbacker's Reaction to Civil Aviation Policy in the 1930s: A Hidden Dimension”; A. Timothy Warnock, “The Wright Brothers and the U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1905--1915”; John H. Morrow, “Brave Men Flying: The Wright Brothers and Military Aviation in World War I”; Tami Davis Biddle, “Strategic Air Warfare: An Analysis”; David T. Courtwright, “The Routine Stuff: How Flying Became a Form of Mass Transportation”; Anne Collins Goodyear, “The Effect of Flight on Art in the Twentieth Century”; Dominick A. Pisano, “The Spirit of St. Louis---Fact and Symbol: Misinterpreting a Historic Cultural Artifact”.


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Review Roland, Alex (2006) Review of "Reconsidering a Century of Flight". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 145). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Crouch, Tom D.
Jakab, Peter L.
Gollin, Alfred M.
Wright, Wilbur
Wolko, Howard S.
Whelan, Paula A.
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Government sponsored science
Technology
Technology and government
Military technology
Aircraft; airplanes
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
British Isles
Greece
Europe
Canada
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