The Aeroplane
by Claude Grahame-White
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About this eBook
- Author
- Harper, Harry, 1880-1960
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Paul Marshall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Aeronautics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45825
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45825
- Release Date
- May 30, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE AEROPLANE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CHAPTER I WHAT EARLY HISTORY TELLS
- 4.CHAPTER II THE WORK OF SCIENTISTS
- 5.CHAPTER III FIRST FRUITS OF STUDY
- 6.CHAPTER IV OTTO AND GUSTAV LILIENTHAL
- 7.CHAPTER V GLIDING FLIGHT
- 8.CHAPTER VI “THE BIRD MAN”
- 9.CHAPTER VII WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT
- 10.CHAPTER VIII THE WRIGHT MOTOR-DRIVEN PLANE
- 11.CHAPTER IX DAWN OF FLIGHT
- 12.CHAPTER X RIVAL AIRMEN
- 13.CHAPTER XI A YEAR OF TRIUMPH
- 14.CHAPTER XII PERILS OF THE AIR
- 15.CHAPTER XIII MILITARY AND CROSS-COUNTRY FLYING
- 16.CHAPTER XIV SEA-PLANES AND AIRSHIPS
- 17.CHAPTER XV AERIAL WARFARE [2]
- 18.CHAPTER XVI AT A MODERN AERODROME
- 19.CHAPTER XVII THE FLYING SCHOOL
- 20.CHAPTER XVIII TOURING BY AIR
- 21.CHAPTER XIX TWENTY YEARS HENCE
- 22.FOOTNOTES:
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