Reinventing the propeller : aeronautical specialty and the triumph of the modern airplane /
An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled incr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Cambridge centennial of flight.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled increasingly sophisticated and 'modern' commercial and military aircraft to climb quicker and cruise faster using less power. Reinventing the Propeller nimbly moves from the minds of these inventors to their drawing boards, workshops, research and development facilities, and factories, and then shows us how their work performed in the air, both commercially and militarily. Reinventing the Propeller documents this story of a forgotten technology to reveal new perspectives on engineering, research and development, design, and the multi-layered social, cultural, financial, commercial, industrial, and military infrastructure of aviation. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9781316529744 (ebook) |
