Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY OF AVIATION AND SPACEFLIGHT SERIES) - Softcover

Jakab, Peter L.

 
9781560987482: Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention (SMITHSONIAN HISTORY OF AVIATION AND SPACEFLIGHT SERIES)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1560987480 ISBN 13: 9781560987482
Verlag: Smithsonian Books, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had attempted to solve for a century.

Step by step, the book details the path of invention (including the important wind tunnel experiments of 1901) which culminated in the momentous flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the first major milestone in aviation history. Enhanced by original photos, designs, drawings, notebooks, letters and diaries of the Wright Brothers, Visions of a Flying Machine is a fascinating book that will be of interest to engineers, historians, enthusiasts, or anyone interested in the process of invention.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter L. Jakab is curator of early aviation at the National Air and Space Museum and the co-editor of The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004). He lives in Virginia.

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Verlag
Smithsonian Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1560987480
ISBN 13 
9781560987482
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
282
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