Sears william rees 1913 2002 (1 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. DETAILS: near fine white woven cloth with red line drawing and titles on front cover. SEARS, WILLIAM REES. Stories from a 20th-century life. Stanford, Calif.: Parabolic Press, 1994, stated First Printing, xi, 292pp., . One of the leading aeronautical engineers of our time has written a delightful autobiography in the form of a stream of anecdotes -- from a boyhood in Minnesota, through graduate study at Caltech, to chief of aerodynamics at Northrop during World War II, and on to found the Graduate School of Aeronautical Engineering at Cornell. He includes a full chapter of stories -- "some of them true" -- about his mentor Theodore von Karman. 9780915760053 ISBN 0915760053 23.80.…