Richard Hallion 14210

Taking flight: Inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the First World War

Oxford University Press, 2003. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 531. The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact-from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's historic flight on December 17, 1903-has been extraordinary. Richard Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. The result is an interpretive history of uncommon sweep, complexity, and warmth. Taking care to place each technological advance in the context of its own period as well as that of the evolving era of air travel, this ground-breaking work follows the pre-history of flight, the work of balloon and airship advocates, fruitless early attempts to invent the airplane, the Wright brothers and other pioneers, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, and finally the transfer of prophecy into practice as flight came to play an ever-more important role in world affairs, both military and civil. Making extensive use of extracts from the journals, +iaries, and memoirs of the pioneers themselves, and interspersing them with a wide range or rare photographs and drawings, Taking Flight leads readers to the laboratories and airfields where aircraft were conceived and tested. Forcefully yet gracefully written in rich detail and with thorough documentation, this book is certain to be the standard reference for years to come on how humanity came to take to the sky, and what the Aerial Age has meant to the world since da Vinci's first fantastical designs. ISBN: 9780195160352. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Hallion, Richard

Taking flight : inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the First World War

New York : Oxford University Press 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Ephemera loosely inserted. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: xxi. 531 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Summary: Uses extracts from journals. diaries. and memoirs. as well as rare photographs and drawings. to provide a history of humanity's attempts at flight. including kites. balloons. rockets. and steerable airships. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Aeronautics History. Genre: Bibliography. Language: English. ISBN: 0195160355.

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HALLION Richard P

Taking Flight. [Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War]. AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [2003]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous photographs in the text; white boards, pale blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO REAR-ADMIRAL RICHARD COBBOLD RN WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.

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HALLION Richard P. :

Taking Flight. Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War.

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 2003, large in-8°, 531pp. illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and diagrams. Hardcover, publisher's cloth with dustwrapper. (hardcover). An original and comprehensive new history of flight, its prehistory, early attempts by pioneers to invent the aeroplane, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, the effects of flight on world affairs..... .

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Hallion, Richard

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War

New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. 0195160355. Fine in near fine dust jacket with the slightest wear. Signed by Hallion on the title-page. Fine/Near Fine.

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Hallion, Richard P.

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 2003; Oxford University Press; 531pp.; Conditie: Goed; Original gilt lettered half cloth, dust jacket, illustrated in b/w, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352

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Hallion, Richard P.

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 2003; Oxford University Press; 531pp.; Conditie: Goed; Original gilt lettered half cloth, dust jacket, illustrated in b/w, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352

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Hallion, Richard P.

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 2003; Oxford University Press; 531pp.; Black permanent marker lines on bottom cut. -- Conditie: Goed; Original gilt lettered half cloth, price clipped dust jacket, illustrated in b/w, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352

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