g edward pendray (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. 125 pp., illustrated, 8vo, card wrappers. Included are brief biographical sketches of the 35 awardees of the Daniel Guggeheim Medal for Achievement in Aeronatics. Printed by Joh. Eschedé en Zonen Grafische. Good copy overall; minor bump to one corner, light crease to a few pages, and some fading on and near the spine.

Zustand: Good. - Small quarto, purple wraps. Faded at the extremities & slightly bumped. 125 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Ex-library with a pocket in the rear & a label on the half title. Good. An informative catalogue providing biographical sketches of the Guggenheim Medalists in Aviation from 1929 to1963.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 244 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Blue. Stated First Edition, 1945. Good, Light Wear, Tiny Frays At Tips, No Marks, Spine Lettering Clear But Weak.

S. 534-553. Orig.-Broschur. From the Smiths. Report for 1939 (Publ. 3562). - Pendray schuf eine, wie er es nannte,"Zeitkapsel", um Alltagsgegenstände in einem versiegelten Behälter für zukünftige Historiker zu konservieren. Er und seine Mitarbeiter arbeiteten an den Anfängen der Raketenentwicklung und -technologie, die 1934 zu seiner Mitgründung der American Interplanetary Society (die in American Rocket Society umbenannt wurde) führte. Ha-C5-62 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.

Octavo, red cloth, spine printed with bright-blue block with gilt lettering, front cover has a bright-blue reversed-out printed stamp of the publisher's logo, [x], 244 pp., eight double-sided black-and-white plates, illustrated throughout with black-and-white diagrams, one appendix included. Spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, foxing on endpapers, very slight browning on leaves as common to publications of the period, edges of dust-jacket slightly worn and torn without loss of text; overall a very good copy with clean and crisp internal leaves and a very good dust-jacket. First edition, very scarce. G. Edward Pendray was an expert on rocket power and in 1930 was one of the founders of the American Rocket Society. He wrote for many years about science, and conceived and directed the first Time Capsule Project at the New York World's Fair in 1939. In this informative book, written in the last year of World War Two, Pendray traces the evolution of rocket principles, from their discovery in China centuries before to wartime developments including robots, the bazooka and the jet-propelled plane. He also speculates on the potential of rocket technology in making interplanetary travel a reality. Written in pencil inside the back cover is the name "Michael Sadoski".