The Dynamics of Mechanical Flight (Classic Reprint): Lectures Delivered at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, March, 1910 and 1911: ... March, 1910 and 1911 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Dynamics of Mechanical Flight

In the Greek Mythology, Demeter rides in a car drawn by ?ying dragons. And Homer describes the ?ight of Hera in her chariot, Iliad V 750; and then there is the legend of Icarus and his father Daedalus who taught his son the Office of a fowl, and yet for all his wings the fool was drowned and another legend Of Archytas of Tarentum, aerias tentasse domos with his invention of a ?ying mechanical bird.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.