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The American aviation experience : a history / edited by Tim Brady.
- Title
- The American aviation experience : a history / edited by Tim Brady.
- Publication
- Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000.
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| Text | Request in advance | TL521 A7183 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brady, Tim, 1939-
- Description
- vii, 462 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This book is designed to be a primary text for courses in aviation history and development and aviation in America. The seventeen chapters in The American Aviation Experience: A History range chronologically from ancient times through the Wright brothers through both world wars, culminating with the development of the U.S. space program. Contributors also cover balloons and dirigibles, African American pioneers in aviation, and women in aviation. These essayists - leading scholars in the field - present the history of aviation mainly from an American perspective.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The ancients / Tim Brady -- Developments before the Wright Brothers / Charles Rodriguez -- Orville and Wilbur Wright / Paul A. Whelan -- Advancements in powered flight before World War I ; World War I ; U.S. airlines before 1930 / Tim Brady -- Developments between the wars / James E. Crehan and Tim Brady -- U.S. airlines from 1930 to World War II / Tim Brady -- World War II / Thomas J. Connolly -- U.S. air carriers after World War II / Henry R. Lehrer -- General aviation after World War II / William McCurry -- Military airpower developments after World War II / Paul A. Whelan -- Government and aviation / David A. NewMyer -- Balloons and dirigibles / Robeson S. Moise -- African American pioneers in aviation / Isaac Richmond Nettey -- Women in aviation / Hope Bouvette Thornberg -- Space history / Lance Erickson -- Appendix. Leonardo da Vinci and the science of flight / Edward McCurdy.
- ISBN
- 0809323257 (alk. paper)
- 0809323710 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99088092^
- OCLC
- 43050136
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library