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Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
Taking Flight Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
Author: Richard Hallion
The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the ai...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195160352
ISBN-10: 0195160355
Publication Date: 5/8/2003
Pages: 531
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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