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A History of Aeronautics

A History of Aeronautics

by Evelyn Charles Vivian

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Author
Marsh, W. Lockwood (William Lockwood), 1886-1963
Credits
Produced by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
Subject
Aeronautics -- History
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 58347
Release Date
November 25, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS
  2. 2.FOREWORD
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.Part I THE EVOLUTION OF THE AEROPLANE
  5. 5.I THE PERIOD OF LEGEND
  6. 6.II EARLY EXPERIMENTS
  7. 7.III SIR GEORGE CAYLEY—THOMAS WALKER
  8. 8.IV THE MIDDLE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  9. 9.V WENHAM, LE BRIS, AND SOME OTHERS
  10. 10.VI THE AGE OF THE GIANTS
  11. 11.VII LILIENTHAL AND PILCHER
  12. 12.VIII AMERICAN GLIDING EXPERIMENTS
  13. 13.IX NOT PROVEN
  14. 14.X SAMUEL PIERPOINT LANGLEY
  15. 15.XI THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
  16. 16.XII THE FIRST YEARS OF CONQUEST
  17. 17.XIII FIRST FLIERS IN ENGLAND
  18. 18.XIV RHEIMS, AND AFTER
  19. 19.XV THE CHANNEL CROSSING
  20. 20.XVI LONDON TO MANCHESTER
  21. 21.XVII A SUMMARY, TO 1911
  22. 22.XVIII A SUMMARY, TO 1914
  23. 23.XIX THE WAR PERIOD—I
  24. 24.XX THE WAR PERIOD—II
  25. 25.XXI RECONSTRUCTION
  26. 26.XXII 1919–20
  27. 27.Part II 1903–1920: PROGRESS IN DESIGN
  28. 28.I THE BEGINNINGS
  29. 29.II MULTIPLICITY OF IDEAS
  30. 30.III PROGRESS ON STANDARDISED LINES
  31. 31.IV THE WAR PERIOD
  32. 32.Part III AEROSTATICS
  33. 33.I BEGINNINGS
  34. 34.II THE FIRST DIRIGIBLES
  35. 35.III SANTOS-DUMONT
  36. 36.IV THE MILITARY DIRIGIBLE
  37. 37.V BRITISH AIRSHIP DESIGN
  38. 38.VI THE AIRSHIP COMMERCIALLY
  39. 39.VII KITE BALLOONS
  40. 40.Part IV ENGINE DEVELOPMENT
  41. 41.I THE VERTICAL TYPE
  42. 42.II THE VEE TYPE
  43. 43.III THE RADIAL TYPE
  44. 44.IV THE ROTARY TYPE
  45. 45.V THE HORIZONTALLY-OPPOSED ENGINE
  46. 46.VI THE TWO-STROKE CYCLE ENGINE
  47. 47.VII ENGINES OF THE WAR PERIOD
  48. 48.APPENDIX A GENERAL MENSIER’s REPORT ON THE TRIALS OF CLEMENT ADER’S ‘AVION.’ — Report on the trials of M. Clement Ader’s aviation apparatus. — Annex to the Report of October 21st.
  49. 49.APPENDIX B Specification and Claims of Wright Patent, No. 821393. Filed March 23rd, 1903. Issued May 22nd, 1906. Expires May 22nd, 1923.
  50. 50.APPENDIX C Proclamation published by the French Government on balloon ascents, 1783.
  51. 51.A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AERONAUTICS.
  52. 52.INDEX
  53. 53.FOOTNOTES
  54. 54.Transcriber’s Notes

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