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Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1107142865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores a technology that transformed airplanes into safe, practical tools of war and a means of transportation during the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1108124542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled increasingly sophisticated and 'modern' commercial and military aircraft to climb quicker and cruise faster using less power. Reinventing the Propeller nimbly moves from the minds of these inventors to their drawing boards, workshops, research and development facilities, and factories, and then shows us how their work performed in the air, both commercially and militarily. Reinventing the Propeller documents this story of a forgotten technology to reveal new perspectives on engineering, research and development, design, and the multi-layered social, cultural, financial, commercial, industrial, and military infrastructure of aviation.
Author: Roy D. Hager
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1985-03
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0521817870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. Anderson Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1108340563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe airplane has experienced phenomenal advancement in the twentieth century, changing at an exponential rate from the Wright brothers to the present day. In this ground breaking work based on new research, Dr John D. Anderson, Jr, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, analyzes the historical development of the conceptual design process of the airplane. He aims to answer the question of whether airplane advancement has been driven by a parallel advancement in the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design. In doing so, Anderson identifies and examines six case histories of 'grand designers' in this field, and challenges some of the preconceived notions of how the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design advanced. Filled with over one hundred illustrations which bring his words to life, Anderson unfolds the lives and thoughts of these grand designers.
Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781626830370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe NACA and aircraft propulsion, 1915-1958 -- NASA gets to work, 1958-1975 -- The shift toward commercial aviation, 1966-1975 -- The quest for propulsive efficiency, 1976-1989 -- Propulsion control enters the computer era, 1976-1998 -- Transiting to a new century, 1990-2008 -- Toward the future
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Published: 1985-03
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
