A History of Aeronautics. Evelyn Charles Vivian

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       W. Lockwood Marsh, Evelyn Charles Vivian

      A History of Aeronautics

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664603326

Table of Contents

       FOREWORD

       PART I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE AEROPLANE

       I. THE PERIOD OF LEGEND

       II. EARLY EXPERIMENTS

       III. SIR GEORGE CAYLEY—THOMAS WALKER

       IV. THE MIDDLE NINETEENTH CENTURY

       V. WENHAM, LE BRIS, AND SOME OTHERS

       VI. THE AGE OF THE GIANTS

       VII. LILIENTHAL AND PILCHER

       VIII. AMERICAN GLIDING EXPERIMENTS

       IX. NOT PROVEN

       X. SAMUEL PIERPOINT LANGLEY

       XI. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS

       XII. THE FIRST YEARS OF CONQUEST

       XIII. FIRST FLIERS IN ENGLAND

       XIV. RHEIMS, AND AFTER

       XV. THE CHANNEL CROSSING

       XVI. LONDON TO MANCHESTER

       XVII. A SUMMARY, TO 1911

       XVIII. A SUMMARY, TO 1914

       XIX. THE WAR PERIOD—I

       XX. THE WAR PERIOD—II

       XXI. RECONSTRUCTION

       XXII. 1919-20

       PART II. 1903-1920: PROGRESS IN DESIGN

       By Lieut.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh

       I. THE BEGINNINGS

       II. MULTIPLICITY OF IDEAS

       III. PROGRESS ON STANDARDISED LINES

       IV. THE WAR PERIOD

       PART III. AEROSTATICS

       I. BEGINNINGS

       II. THE FIRST DIRIGIBLES

       III. SANTOS-DUMONT

       IV. THE MILITARY DIRIGIBLE

       V. BRITISH AIRSHIP DESIGN

       VI. THE AIRSHIP COMMERCIALLY

       VII. KITE BALLOONS

       PART IV. ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

       I. THE VERTICAL TYPE

       II. THE VEE TYPE

       III. THE RADIAL TYPE

       IV. THE ROTARY TYPE

       V. THE HORIZONTALLY-OPPOSED ENGINE

       VI. THE TWO-STROKE CYCLE ENGINE

       VII. ENGINES OF THE WAR PERIOD

       APPENDIX A

       GENERAL MENSIER'S REPORT ON THE TRIALS OF CLEMENT ADER'S AVION.

       APPENDIX B

       APPENDIX C

FOREWORD

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      Although successful heavier-than-air flight is less than two decades old, and successful dirigible propulsion antedates