Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
- ISBN-10
- 0195160355
- ISBN-13
- 9780195160352
- Series
- Taking Flight
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 531
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-05-08
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Richard Hallion
Description
Uses extracts from journals, diaries, and memoirs, as well as rare photographs and drawings, to provide a history of humanity's attempts at flight, including kites, balloons, rockets, and steerable airships.
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- 2003-05-08
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- 2020-07-17
- 204 pages
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- 2020-07-15
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