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Blue Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 289 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing. Analysis And Formulas Throughout. Light Wear, Lettering Bright, No Fraying. "Engineering Cybernetics" Was A Groundbreaking Work Applying Principles Of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics To Problems Of Engineering, Particularly Aeronautics. The Only Book Published By This Author In The Us. During The 1940'S Qian Was One Of The Founders Of The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Including Early Experiments In The Arroyo Seco. During The Second Red Scare Of The 1950S, The United States Government Accused Qian Of Having Communist Sympathies (As He Was Providing Chinese Contacts With Scientific Technical Information), And He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance In 1950. Qian Then Decided To Return To China, But Instead Was Detained At Terminal Island Near Los Angeles. After Spending 5 Years Under Virtual House Arrest, Qian Was Released In 1955, In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Captured During The Korean War. Notified By U.S. Authorities That He Was Free To Go, Qian Immediately Arranged His Departure, Leaving For China In September 1955, On The Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland Of American President Lines, Via Hong Kong. He Returned To Lead The Chinese Rocket Program, And Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry" (Or "King Of Rocketry"). He Is The Cousin Of The Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien, And His Nephew Is The 2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Winner Roger Y. Tsien. Asteroid 3763 Qianxuesen And The Ill-Fated Space Ship Tsien In The Science Fiction Novel "2010: Odyssey Two" Are Named After Him. A Near Fine Book.No Marks. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Vi, 463-504, (Ii), 36 Pp + Ads At Rear. Two Issues. Original Green Wrappers Lettered In Black. Light Wear; Ownership Signature Of Aeronautical Engineer John Stack (Part 1) And Aeronautical Engineer Richard Q. Bourn (Part 2); John Stack (1906-1972) Won The Collier Trophy, In 1947 And 1951 He Worked At Langley Research Center From 1928 To 1962, And Republic Aircraft Corporation, From 1962 To 1971. He Gave The Eighth Wright Brothers Lecture, "Compressible Flows In Aeronautics", 1945. Quotation: "Let's Try The Damn Thing And See If We Can Make It Work." He Worked On Transonic Flight. He Was Part Of The Bell X-1 Team. He Worked With The Variable Density Tunnel, On Compressible Airflow. Qian Xuesen, Or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 - 31 October 2009), Was A Chinese Mathematician, Cyberneticist, Aerospace Engineer, And Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions To The Field Of Aerodynamics And Established Engineering Cybernetics. Recruited From Mit, He Joined Theodore Von Kármán's Group At Caltech. During Wwii, He Was Involved In The Manhattan Project, Which Ultimately Led To The Successful Development Of The First Atomic Bomb In America. Later On, Under The Pressure Of Deportation For Suspicions Of Association With Communists, He Would Eventually Return To China, Where He Would Make Important Contributions To China's Missile And Space Program. During The Second Red Scare, In The 1950S, The Us Federal Government Accused Him Of Communist Sympathies. In 1950, Despite Protests By His Colleagues, He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance. He Decided To Return To China, But He Was Detained At Terminal Island, Near Los Angeles. After Spending Five Years Under House Arrest, He Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Who Had Been Captured During The Korean War. He Left The United States In September 1955 On The American President Lines Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland, Arriving In China Via Hong Kong. Upon His Return, He Helped Lead The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program. This Effort Ultimately Led To China's First Successful Atomic Bomb Test And Hydrogen Bomb Test, Making China The Fifth Nuclear Weapons State, And Achieving The Fastest Fission-To-Fusion Development In History. Additionally, Qian's Work Led To The Development Of The Dongfeng Ballistic Missile And The Chinese Space Program. For His Contributions, He Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry", Nicknamed The "King Of Rocketry". He Is Recognized As One Of The Founding Fathers Of Two Bombs, One Satellite. In 1957, Qian Was Elected An Academician Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences. He Served As A Vice Chairman Of The National Committee Of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference From 1987 To 1998. He Was The Cousin Of Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien, Who Was Involved In The Aerospace Industries Of China And The United States; His Nephew Is Roger Y. Tsien, The 2008 Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Chemistry. (Introductory Material From Wikipedia, Prefacing The Full Article).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete Volume, Numbers 1-12, Bound Without Wrappers, But With The Complete Index To Volume 5 Bound In At Front. , Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Over Boards, Ownership Stamps Of Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau; M. O. D. Adastral Library; And Central School Of Aircraft Recognition / 11 Jan 1955 / Royal Air Force, Ownership Paper Label Of British Air Staff Intelligence Headquarters. Includes Two Articles By Von Karman, Including One Co-Authored With Tsien, One Co-Authored With W. R. Sears, And Von Karman's Letter To The Editor On Aerodynamics; One Article By Frank J Malina Coauthored With A. M. O. Smith "Flight Analysis Of The Sounding Rocket"; One Article By Tsien, "Supersonic Flow Over An Inclined Body Of Revolution", And Another Co-Authored With Von Karman, "Boundary Layer In Compressible Fluids".…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. (Ii), 623- Pp. Original Green Wrappers Lettered In Black. Light Wear; Ownership Signature Of Aeronautical Engineer Raymond J. Comenzo. Per Wikipedia, Qian Xuesen, Or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 - 31 October 2009), Was A Chinese Mathematician, Cyberneticist, Aerospace Engineer, And Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions To The Field Of Aerodynamics And Established Engineering Cybernetics. Recruited From Mit, He Joined Theodore Von Kármán's Group At Caltech. During Wwii, He Was Involved In The Manhattan Project, Which Ultimately Led To The Successful Development Of The First Atomic Bomb In America. Later On, Under The Pressure Of Deportation For Suspicions Of Association With Communists, He Would Eventually Return To China, Where He Would Make Important Contributions To China's Missile And Space Program. During The Second Red Scare, In The 1950S, The Us Federal Government Accused Him Of Communist Sympathies. In 1950, Despite Protests By His Colleagues, He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance. He Decided To Return To China, But He Was Detained At Terminal Island, Near Los Angeles. After Spending Five Years Under House Arrest, He Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Who Had Been Captured During The Korean War. He Left The United States In September 1955 On The American President Lines Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland, Arriving In China Via Hong Kong. Upon His Return, He Helped Lead The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program. This Effort Ultimately Led To China's First Successful Atomic Bomb Test And Hydrogen Bomb Test, Making China The Fifth Nuclear Weapons State, And Achieving The Fastest Fission-To-Fusion Development In History. Additionally, Qian's Work Led To The Development Of The Dongfeng Ballistic Missile And The Chinese Space Program. For His Contributions, He Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry", Nicknamed The "King Of Rocketry". He Is Recognized As One Of The Founding Fathers Of Two Bombs, One Satellite. In 1957, Qian Was Elected An Academician Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences. He Served As A Vice Chairman Of The National Committee Of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference From 1987 To 1998. He Was The Cousin Of Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien, Who Was Involved In The Aerospace Industries Of China And The United States; His Nephew Is Roger Y. Tsien, The 2008 Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Chemistry. (Introductory Material From Wikipedia, Prefacing The Full Article).…