Reconsidering a Century of Flight - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807828157 ISBN 13: 9780807828151

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into history during a twelve-second flight on a secluded North Carolina beach. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, these essays chart the central role that aviation played in twentieth-century history and capture the spirit of innovation and adventure that has characterized the history of flight.

The contributors, all leading aerospace historians, consider four broad themes relating to the development of flight technology: innovation and the technology of flight, civil aeronautics and government policy, aerial warfare, and aviation in the American imagination. Through their attention to the political, economic, military, and cultural history of flight, the authors establish that the Wrights' invention--and all that followed in both air and space--was one of the most significant technologies of the twentieth century, fundamentally reshaping our world.

Supported by the First Flight Centennial Commission

The contributors are Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Tami Davis Biddle, Roger E. Bilstein, Hans-Joachim Braun, David T. Courtwright, Anne Collins Goodyear, Roger D. Launius, William M. Leary, David D. Lee, W. David Lewis, John H. Morrow, Dominick A. Pisano, and A. Timothy Warnock.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807828157
• ISBN 13: 9780807828151
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Launius Roger D., Bednarek Janet R. Daly
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