TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hallion,Richard
TI  - Taking flight: inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the First World War 
SN  - 0195160355 (alk. paper)
AV  - TL515 .H22 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt.1: Preparing the way: From antiquity to the enlightenment. Of dreams and desires. Conflicting ideas and societies -- Pt.2: Ethereal flight: Inventing the balloon and airship, 1782-1900. The astonishing year. Exploiting the balloon. The quest for steerable flight -- Pt.3: Winged flight: Early conceptions of the airplane, 1792-1903. Sir George Cayley and the birth of aeronautics. The frustrated hopes of French aeronautics. Anglo-American school of power and lift -- Pt.4: The airmen triumphant: Lilienthal, Chanute, and the Wrights, 1891-1905. The Lilienthal legacy. Enter the Wrights. "They done it, they done it, damned if they ain't flew!" -- Prt.5: Europe resurgent, 1905-1909. "L'affaire Wright". "The flying industry is already born". "The age of flight is the age we live in." -- Pt.6: Expansion, incorporation, maturation: Beginning the aerial age, 1910-1914. Global expansion. The loss of innocence. Triumphs of speed and distance -- Pt.7: Tennyson fulfilled: Putting prophecy into practice, 1914 and afterwards. Into the whirlwind. Grappling in the central blue. Reflections on the beginning of the aerial age. Afterword: Technology of light or technology of darkness? : Considering flight after 9/11/01
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