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The airplane : how ideas gave us wings
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The airplane : how ideas gave us wings

著者: Jay P Spenser
出版商: New York : HarperCollins, ©2008.
版本/格式:   图书 : 国家级的政府刊物 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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The inside story of how people invented and refined the airplane.
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材料类型: 政府刊物, 国家级的政府刊物, 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: Jay P Spenser
ISBN: 9780061259197 0061259195
OCLC号码: 191932153
注意: Smithsonian books.
描述: x, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容: Conception: the thinker and the dreamer --
Birth: Wilbur, Orville, and the world --
Configuration: shapes and ideas --
Fuselage: of drums and dragonflies --
Wings, part I : from box kites to bridges --
Wings, part II : cloud-cutting cantilevers --
Empennage: whale flukes and arrow feathers --
Flight controls: the chariot's reins --
Flight deck: cockpits for aerial ships --
Aero propulsion: Prometheus is pushing --
Landing gear: shoes, canoes, and carriage wheels --
Passenger cabin: voyaging aloft --
Systems integration: making flying safer --
Today's state of the art: the Boeing 787 Dreamliner --
Postscript: tomorrow's wings: future air travel technologies.
责任: Jay Spenser.
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A culmination of a career spent explaining flight and airplanes. It shows that for centuries people across the world have wrestled with similar fantasies and speculations about flight, and how in the  再读一些...

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"This is a written like an episode of the old TV show Connections, and is just as entertaining."--Sacramento Book Review

 
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