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- catalog contributor b13243483.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171) and index.".
- catalog description "The miracle of flight -- 1. Imaginings : Setbacks ; Insights ; Devices -- 2. Configurations : George Cayley and the concept of flight ; William Samuel Hensen and the aerial steam carriage ; Alphonse Penaud and inherent stability -- 3. Experiments : Flight testing ; Laboratory experiments ; Trial and error -- 4. Aerodynamics : George Cayley ; Otto Lilienthal ; Samuel Langley -- 5. Technology: collecting data : What the Wrights knew ; Thinking about improvements -- 6. Technology: further trials : A new glider ; Working in the laboratory ; To publish or not to publish -- 7. Technology: a working aircraft : Field testing at Kitty Hawk ; Working on powered machines ; Success -- Appendixes : A. Langley's power law ; B. How the Wrights misinterpreted the Lilienthal tables ; C. Wright's calculation of the flyer velocity.".
- catalog extent "viii, 176 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Inventing flight.".
- catalog identifier "0801868742 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801868750 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Inventing flight.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Inventing flight.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "629.13/009/034 21".
- catalog subject "Aeronautical engineers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Aeronautics Research History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "TL516 .A53 2004".
- catalog subject "Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Knowledge Aeronautics.".
- catalog subject "Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 Knowledge Aeronautics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The miracle of flight -- 1. Imaginings : Setbacks ; Insights ; Devices -- 2. Configurations : George Cayley and the concept of flight ; William Samuel Hensen and the aerial steam carriage ; Alphonse Penaud and inherent stability -- 3. Experiments : Flight testing ; Laboratory experiments ; Trial and error -- 4. Aerodynamics : George Cayley ; Otto Lilienthal ; Samuel Langley -- 5. Technology: collecting data : What the Wrights knew ; Thinking about improvements -- 6. Technology: further trials : A new glider ; Working in the laboratory ; To publish or not to publish -- 7. Technology: a working aircraft : Field testing at Kitty Hawk ; Working on powered machines ; Success -- Appendixes : A. Langley's power law ; B. How the Wrights misinterpreted the Lilienthal tables ; C. Wright's calculation of the flyer velocity.".
- catalog title "Inventing flight : the Wright brothers & their predecessors / John D. Anderson, Jr.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".