seifert howard s (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 1964. No edition remarks. 139 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over paper covered boards. Contains black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Boards are moderately warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable foxing. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. A very clean bright tight copy - no inscriptions. DJ not price clipped.

Zustand: fair to good, ex-lib. Approx. 1100, illus., figs, tables, refs, app, index, lib stamps, rough spots ins fr bd & flylf, bds scuffed, sm tears at spine, lib # on sp.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [vi], 799 pp. Bound in publisher's black leatherette, spine stamped in crimson and gilt. Very Good, hinges cracked (as is typical from the weight of the textblock), light rubbing to spine ends and corners, rubbing to spine lettering, and former owner's name at the front free endpaper. Retains original "Restricted" classification of the Air Technical Service Command. Less wear than most extant copies. A massive rocketry work compiled by remarkable polymath Hsue-shen Tsien (also known as Qian Xuesen): a mathematician, physicist, and inventor of the field of engineering cybernetics. Tsien was a wartime US Army consultant at the time of publication; later he became Goddard Professor of Aerodynamics at Cal Tech. With the onset on McCarthyism his loyalty was questioned by American intelligence agencies and he was confined to house arrest for five years. He left the US for his homeland of China in 1955 on a boat, never to return. Some historians have argued this was greatest single loss the American scientific establishment ever suffered. Warmly welcomed upon arrival by the Chinese communist government, he was instrumental in producing the first Chinese ballistic missile, which also served as foundation for the country's first satellite. He is still revered in China as the father of their space and nuclear programs.