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Wings of Madness
Author | : Paul Hoffman |
Publsiher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-06-16 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786885718 |
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Now in paperback, an "unforgettably good book [told] with compassion and sympathy" (Simon Winchester, New York Times) about an eccentric aviator and the thrilling early days of flight.p”From Paul Hoffman, the acclaimed author of emThe Man Who Loved Only Numbers/em, comes this engaging true story of the man who was once hailed worldwide as the conqueror of the air -- Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906. The dashing and impeccably dressed aeronaut stunned and delighted Paris, barhopping around the city in a one-man dirigible he invented, circling above crowds and crashing into rooftops.pYet Santos-Dumont was a frenzied genius tortured by the weight of his own creation. emWings of Madness
Santos Dumont The Man Who Defied the Heavens and Changed the World Forever RUBENS SILVA
Author | : RUBENS SILVA |
Publsiher | : RUBENS SILVA |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Introduction Alberto Santos Dumont was one of the great names in aviation history, responsible for creating the 14-Bis, the first airplane to take off in a controlled flight in history. But before becoming an aviation pioneer, Santos Dumont had an interesting childhood and youth, which shaped his personality and influenced his trajectory. In this chapter, we will explore Santos Dumont's origins and understand how his early experiences led him to become an inventor and a dreamer. The Author
The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos Dumont
Author | : Victoria Griffith |
Publsiher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1419700111 |
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Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
Autos and Progress
Author | : Joel Wolfe |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-02-16 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0199798745 |
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Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry Ford's building of a company town in the Brazilian jungle; the creation of a transportation infrastructure; democratization and consumer culture; auto workers and their creation of a national political party; and the economic and environmental impact of autos on Brazil. This focus on Brazilians' fascination with automobiles and their reliance on auto production and consumption as keys to their economic and social transformation, explains how Brazil--which enshrined its belief in science and technology in its national slogan of Order and Progress--has differentiated itself from other Latin American nations. Autos and Progress engages key issues in Brazil around the meaning and role of race in society and also addresses several classic debates in Brazilian studies about the nature of Brazil's great size and diversity and how they shaped state-making.
To Conquer the Air
Author | : James Tobin |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439135495 |
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James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths—Langley’s toward oblivion, the Wrights’ toward the heavens—though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian’s accuracy and a novelist’s eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
Bibliography of Aeronautics
Author | : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1514 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:$C177284 |
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Bibliography of Aeronautics Pt 1 50
Author | : United States. Work Projects Administration,United States. Works Progress Administration |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015023929279 |
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A Century of Triumph
Author | : Christopher Chant |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9780743234795 |
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On December 17, 1903, on the windswept beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright piloted the world's first powered flight, in one of the most famous moments in history. Within a few short years, airplanes of various designs were lifting into the air over Europe and America. Soon, the entire world was caught up in the fevered advance of flight and airplanes, Zeppelins, autogyros and helicopters were making the world a much smaller place. To celebrate the first full century of powered flight premier aviation historian Christopher Chant and world-famous illustrator John Batchelor have joined forces to showcase an astonishing march of progress. From the early experiments of gliderman Otto Lilienthal to the moon walk of Neil Armstrong, it has indeed been A Century of Triumph. From the golden age of Zeppelins to the extreme design experiments of World War II to the fierce modernism of supersonic fighter jets, A CENTURY OF TRIUMPH demonstrates the full richness of mankind's flying craft. In addition to Batchelor's illustrations, the book features never-before-published vintage watercolour posters of pre-World War I aviation races and a treasure trove of photographs. Chant's text combines full histories of the planes themselves with biographical essays on some of the great figures of the twentieth century: the Barnstormers, Igor Sikorsky, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, and the Apollo XVII astronauts, among others. A CENTURY OF TRUMPH is a visual and factual feast for anyone who marvels at the majesty of flying.