Cambridge Centennial of Flight – serie
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Dictatorship of the Air
Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Focusing on one of the last untold chapters in the history of human flight, Dictatorship of the Air is the first book to explain the true story behind twentieth-century Russia's quest for aviation prominence. Based on nearly a decade of scholarly research, but written with general readers in mind, …
Missiles for the Fatherland
Peenemünde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile
Häftad, 2011
636 kr
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Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler's Germany. This text was the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany's secret missile base at Peenemünde. Using mainly primary …
The Grand Designers
The Evolution of the Airplane in the 20th Century
Inbunden, 2018
914 kr
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The airplane has experienced phenomenal advancement in the twentieth century, changing at an exponential rate from the Wright brothers to the present day. In this ground breaking work based on new research, Dr John D. Anderson, Jr, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, analyzes the …
Camera Aloft
Edward Steichen in the Great War
Av Von Hardesty
Inbunden, 2015
1575 kr
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Edward Steichen (1879-1973) played a key role in the development of photography in the twentieth century. He is well known for his varied career as an artist, a celebrated photographer and a museum curator. However, Steichen is less known for his pivotal role in shaping America's first experiments …
Dictatorship of the Air
Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia
Inbunden, 2006
871 kr
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Focusing on one of the last untold chapters in the history of human flight, Dictatorship of the Air is the first book to explain the true story behind twentieth-century Russia's quest for aviation prominence. Based on nearly a decade of scholarly research, but written with general readers in mind, …
Missiles for the Fatherland
Peenemünde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler's Germany. This text was the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany's secret missile base at Peenemünde. Using mainly primary …
The Red Rockets' Glare
Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957
Inbunden, 2010
1887 kr
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The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and …
The Red Rockets' Glare
Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957
Häftad, 2014
574 kr
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The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and …
Reinventing the Propeller
Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane
Inbunden, 2017
1628 kr
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An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled …
