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.
Journals
English Historical Review
Air Power History
Publishers
Smithsonian Institution Press
Wright State Univ. Press
Stanford University Press
Southern Illinois University Press
MIT Press
McGraw-Hill
Concepts
Aeronautics; aviation
Government sponsored science
Technology
Technology and government
Military technology
Aircraft; airplanes
People
Wright brothers, Wilber and Orville
Mitchell, R. J.
Johnson, Clarence L.
Schmued, Edgar
Barnwell, F. S. (Frank Sowter), 1880-1938
Chanute, Octave
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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