Airplanes - The Life Story of a Technology

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy R. Kinney is curator in the Aeronautics Division at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He has served as the Centennial of Flight lecturer at the University of Maryland. Klappentext The airplane has redefined the way in which people travel, conduct commerce, spend their leisure time, and wage war. From the Wright brothers' wood-and-fabric "Flyer" to the modern jet aircraft, the airplane has evolved in countless ways as its many uses have unfolded. The development of safe and efficient air travel required solving multiple engineering riddles about aerodynamics, control, propulsion, and structures. "Airplanes" shows how the solutions to these riddles have helped spur dramatic changes in the world's social and cultural life. Zusammenfassung Airplanes shows how the solutions to these riddles have helped spur dramatic changes in the world's social and cultural life.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Kinney, Jeremy R Kinney, Jeremy R. Kinney, Jeremy R. (National Air and Space Museum Kinney
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2008
• EAN: 9780801890697
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9069-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries