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Название: The Shoulders of Giants: A History of Human Flight to 1919
Автор: Phil Scott
Издательство: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 376
Размер: 56,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
Scott's history of human efforts to fly, from 1400 B.C. to the end of World War I, is a chatty and engaging chronicle. As the starting date hints, it took some time to work out the principles of flight and to develop the power sources and the control mechanisms to act upon them successfully; the pace picked up dramatically in the nineteenth century.