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- catalog contributor b12718632.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.".
- catalog description "Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- 1 From Rodent-Powered Aircraft to Stratospheric Satellites -- 2 The Moral Case for Efficiency -- 3 Alpha Males and the Twilight Club -- 4 The Case against Elegant Engineering -- 5 From King Bladud to the Wright Bothers -- 6 Building Self-Confidence -- 7 The Contest at St. Yan -- 8 Midlife Crisis -- 9 Man's Innate Desire to Fly -- 10 Hang-Gliding in Southern California -- 11 The Earth-Flip Hypothesis -- 12 The Otto Lilienthal Meet -- 13 Taras Kiceniuk and Icarus Ground Effect I -- 14 How Henry Kremer Changed Paul.MacCready's Life -- 15 Lambie Luck -- 16 A Human Test Stand -- 17 Tales of the Mojave -- 18 The Shafter Connection -- 19 Reinventing the Wright Brothers -- 20 A Turn for the Better -- 21 The Case for Apparent Altruism -- 22 The Channel Crossing --23 Vikings versus the Emerald Isle -- 24 Why the British Didn't Win -- 25 Soft Energy and Lissaman's Broken Heart -- 26 How the Oil Crisis Changed the Country -- 27 Bob Boucher and the Eternal Plane -- 28 From Pointoise to "a Right Proper Piss-up" -- 29 "A Big Damn Bird Came Out of the Sky" -- 30 Biking Through the Gene Pool -- 31 Solar Deluge on the Bitumen -- 32 Electric Cars and Mental Blocks -- 33 Day of the Stratospheric Satellite -- 34 The Engineer, the Hunter and the Bear -- 35 Tao of the Carbon Dragon -- 36 Saving the World Io Percent at a Time -- 37 Doctoral Thesis Immortality -- 38 Exploding Biomimicry -- 39 Why Blind People Don't Sky Dive -- 40 The Johnny Appleseed of Ornithopters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog extent "259 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1893554503 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Encounter Books,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "629.13/0092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Aeronautical engineers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Human powered aircraft.".
- catalog subject "MacCready, Paul B.".
- catalog subject "Mechanical efficiency.".
- catalog subject "TL540.M227 C56 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- 1 From Rodent-Powered Aircraft to Stratospheric Satellites -- 2 The Moral Case for Efficiency -- 3 Alpha Males and the Twilight Club -- 4 The Case against Elegant Engineering -- 5 From King Bladud to the Wright Bothers -- 6 Building Self-Confidence -- 7 The Contest at St. Yan -- 8 Midlife Crisis -- 9 Man's Innate Desire to Fly -- 10 Hang-Gliding in Southern California -- 11 The Earth-Flip Hypothesis -- 12 The Otto Lilienthal Meet -- 13 Taras Kiceniuk and Icarus Ground Effect I -- 14 How Henry Kremer Changed Paul.MacCready's Life -- 15 Lambie Luck -- 16 A Human Test Stand -- 17 Tales of the Mojave -- 18 The Shafter Connection -- 19 Reinventing the Wright Brothers -- 20 A Turn for the Better -- 21 The Case for Apparent Altruism -- 22 The Channel Crossing --23 Vikings versus the Emerald Isle -- 24 Why the British Didn't Win -- 25 Soft Energy and Lissaman's Broken Heart -- 26 How the Oil Crisis Changed the Country -- 27 Bob Boucher and the Eternal Plane -- 28 From Pointoise to "a Right Proper Piss-up" -- 29 "A Big Damn Bird Came Out of the Sky" -- 30 Biking Through the Gene Pool -- 31 Solar Deluge on the Bitumen -- 32 Electric Cars and Mental Blocks -- 33 Day of the Stratospheric Satellite -- 34 The Engineer, the Hunter and the Bear -- 35 Tao of the Carbon Dragon -- 36 Saving the World Io Percent at a Time -- 37 Doctoral Thesis Immortality -- 38 Exploding Biomimicry -- 39 Why Blind People Don't Sky Dive -- 40 The Johnny Appleseed of Ornithopters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "More with less : Paul MacCready and the dream of efficient flight / Paul Ciotti.".
- catalog type "text".