My Airships
by Alberto Santos-Dumont
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About this eBook
- Author
- Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932
- Title
- My Airships; The Story of My Life
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, 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
- Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42344
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42344
- Release Date
- March 16, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MY AIRSHIPS
- 2.MY AIRSHIPS
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTORY FABLE THE REASONING OF CHILDREN
- 6.CHAPTER I THE COFFEE PLANTATION
- 7.CHAPTER II PARIS—PROFESSIONAL BALLOONISTS—AUTOMOBILES
- 8.CHAPTER III MY FIRST BALLOON ASCENT
- 9.CHAPTER IV MY "BRAZIL"—SMALLEST OF SPHERICAL BALLOONS
- 10.CHAPTER V THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY DANGERS OF BALLOONING
- 11.CHAPTER VI I YIELD TO THE STEERABLE BALLOON IDEA
- 12.CHAPTER VII MY FIRST AIR-SHIP CRUISES (1898)
- 13.CHAPTER VIII HOW IT FEELS TO NAVIGATE THE AIR
- 14.CHAPTER IX EXPLOSIVE ENGINES AND INFLAMMABLE GASES
- 15.CHAPTER X I GO IN FOR AIRSHIP BUILDING
- 16.CHAPTER XI THE EXPOSITION SUMMER
- 17.CHAPTER XII THE DEUTSCH PRIZE AND ITS PROBLEMS
- 18.CHAPTER XIII A FALL BEFORE A RISE
- 19.CHAPTER XIV THE BUILDING OF MY "NO. 6"
- 20.CHAPTER XV WINNING THE DEUTSCH PRIZE
- 21.CHAPTER XVI A GLANCE BACKWARD AND FORWARD
- 22.CHAPTER XVII MONACO AND THE MARITIME GUIDE ROPE
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII FLIGHTS IN MEDITERRANEAN WINDS
- 24.CHAPTER XIX SPEED
- 25.CHAPTER XX AN ACCIDENT AND ITS LESSONS
- 26.CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST OF THE WORLD'S AIR-SHIP STATIONS
- 27.CHAPTER XXII MY "NO. 9," THE LITTLE RUNABOUT
- 28.CHAPTER XXIII THE AIR-SHIP IN WAR
- 29.CHAPTER XXIV PARIS AS A CENTRE OF AIR-SHIP EXPERIMENTS
- 30.CONCLUDING FABLE MORE REASONING OF CHILDREN
- 31.FOOTNOTES
- 32.Transcriber's Notes
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