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PrintCollection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2575
Post Type: Book
This item was entered by Matthew Sutton. They assume full responsibility for all content.
Artist or Author: Charles Gibbs-Smith
Creation Year: 1975
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ISBN: 413 33020 6 Language: English Description: This is an international portrait of those flying-machines which started with Sir Geoge Cayley's design of 1799, and went to make up that great stream of endeavour which had its true climax in the Wright brothers' machines of 1903-05; and then went forward triumphantly to 1909 when the first Aviation Meeting at Reims symbolised the arrival in the world of the aeroplane as the latest and most exciting of man's practical vehicles- vehicles which have since transformed our world and its civilization. Here is a panorama of the growth of the aeroplane from a pipe-dream set down on paper to the seeming miracle of successful flying throught the atmosphere by man-carrying machines heavier than the air through which they ride.
150 pages
Geographic: United Kingdom, United States
Materials: Paper
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