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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.133
Fabric Type: 9780061259197
Legal Disclaimer: 0061259195
Maximum Color Depth: Smithsonian
Metal Type: Smithsonian
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 352
Total External Bays Free: November 01, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Smithsonian
Total Parallel Ports: October 28, 2008
Smithsonian
Features:- ISBN13: 9780061259197
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The inside story of how people invented and refined the airplane.
Who were aviation's dreamers and from where did they draw their inspiration? What lessons did inventors learn from birds, insects, marine mammals, and fish that helped us fly? How did the bicycle lead to the airplane, and hot water heaters to metal fuselages?And who figured out how to fly without seeing the ground, setting the stage for scheduled airline services in all weather conditions?
In this entertaining history of the jetliner, Jay Spenser follows the flow of simple yet powerful ideas to trace aviation's challenges. He introduces us to pioneers across continents and centuries, sheds new insights on their contributions, and evokes those key moments in history when, piece by piece, such innovators as Otto Lilienthal, Igor Sikorsky, Louis Blériot, Hugo Junkers, and Jack Northrop collectively solved the puzzle of flight.
Along the way, Spenser demystifies the modern jetliner. From wings to flight controls to fuselages to landing gear, he examines the parts of the airplane to show how they came into being and have evolved over time. The Airplane culminates in a discussion of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and explores the possibilities for aviation's future.
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The title suggests that this is a history of aviation based on progressive insights into the nature of flight. Instead, it is a somewhat dry recitation of the engineering details of how aircraft evolved from the Wright Flyer to modern jets. Ironically, the only section that delves into the "ideas that gave us wings" is an initial chapter on the eighteenth-century English polymath George Cayley. His prophetic but personally unrealized predictions of aircraft construction receive extensive credit, ... Read More
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Birds do it. Bees do it. But for most of history, people could not. (Not to mention educated fleas.)
Even so, humans have long been fascinated by flight. Through the ages, many men (and women, though Jay Spenser gives little mention to Amelia Earhart and other female aviators) have tried to follow the example of birds and bees. Leonardo da Vinci filled many of the pages of his notebooks with figures of flying machines (all of them, curiously, with flapping wings like a bird's, an ... Read More
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Jay Spenser's The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings is a significant addition to the literature on air and space. Gracefully and insightfully written, it is ideally suited for schools and colleges, the perfect introduction to flight for non-specialists and specialists alike. I guarantee that once you have read this illuminating and thoughtful book, you will never regard an airplane with a dismissive eye again. Bravo!
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I'm sure engineers might balk about some of the simplistic descriptions in the book, but for everyone else, including die-hard aviation fanatics, the book is an interesting read.
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Tracking the development of the airplane by its component pieces, Jay Spenser provides a look at aviation history, starting well before the Wright brothers, and going further afield than America's role in it. Many of the parts in a modern airplane didn't spring Athena-like into final development, but came from different inventors, each working independently on projects that often didn't have anything to do with the airplane. As Spenser takes us through history, step by step, his eventual goal is the ... Read More
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