Artificial and Natural Flight
by Hiram S. Maxim
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About this eBook
- Author
- Maxim, Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens), 1840-1916
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Flight
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45344
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45344
- Release Date
- April 7, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLIGHT.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- 6.CHAPTER II. AIR CURRENTS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.
- 7.CHAPTER III. FLYING OF KITES.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO SCREWS.
- 9.CHAPTER V. EXPERIMENTS WITH APPARATUS ATTACHED TO A ROTATING ARM. — CRYSTAL PALACE EXPERIMENTS.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. HINTS AS TO THE BUILDING OF FLYING MACHINES. — STEERING BY MEANS OF A GYROSCOPE.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. THE SHAPE AND EFFICIENCY OF AEROPLANES. — THE ACTION OF AEROPLANES AND THE POWER REQUIRED EXPRESSED IN THE SIMPLEST TERMS. — SOME RECENT MACHINES.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. BALLOONS.
- 13.APPENDIX I. — MAJOR BADEN-POWELL’S DEMAND. — COMMAND OF THE AIR.
- 14.APPENDIX II. — RECAPITULATION OF EARLY EXPERIMENTS. — EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE MACHINE. — THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF VERY NARROW PLANES. — THE EFFICIENCY OF SCREW PROPELLERS, STEERING, STABILITY, &c. — THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF DIFFERENT MOTORS. — ENGINES. — EXPERIMENTS WITH SMALL MACHINES ATTACHED TO A ROTATING ARM.
- 15.GENERAL INDEX.
- 16.Transcriber’s Notes
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