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作       者:E. Charles Vivian

出  版  社:Seltzer Books

出版时间:2018-03-01

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First published in 1920. According to the Foreword: "Although successful heavier-than-air flight is less than two decades old, and successful dirigible propulsion antedates it by a very short period, the mass of experiment and accomplishment renders any one-volume history of the subject a matter of selection. In addition to the restrictions imposed by space limits, the material for compilation is fragmentary, and, in many cases, scattered through periodical and other publications. Hitherto, there has been no attempt at furnishing a detailed account of how the aeroplane and the dirigible of to-day came to being, but each author who has treated the subject has devoted his attention to some special phase or section. The principal exception to this rule--Hildebrandt--wrote in 1906, and a good many of his statements are inaccurate, especially with regard to heavier-than-air experiment."
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A HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS BY E. CHARLES VIVIAN

FOREWORD

PART I THE EVOLUTION OF THE AEROPLANE

I. THE PERIOD OF LEGEND

II. EARLY EXPERIMENTS

III. SIR GEORGE CAYLEY--THOMAS WALKER

IV. THE MIDDLE NINETEENTH CENTURY

V. WENHAM, LE BRIS, AND SOME OTHERS

VI. THE AGE OF THE GIANTS

VII. LILIENTHAL AND PILCHER

VIII. AMERICAN GLIDING EXPERIMENTS

IX. NOT PROVEN

X. SAMUEL PIERPOINT LANGLEY

XI. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS

XII. THE FIRST YEARS OF CONQUEST

XIII. FIRST FLIERS IN ENGLAND

XIV. RHEIMS, AND AFTER

XV. THE CHANNEL CROSSING

XVI. LONDON TO MANCHESTER

XVII. A SUMMARY, TO 1911

XVIII. A SUMMARY, TO 1914

XIX. THE WAR PERIOD--I

XX. THE WAR PERIOD--II

XXI. RECONSTRUCTION

XXII. 1919-20

PART II 1903-1920: PROGRESS IN DESIGN BY LIEUT.-COL. W. LOCKWOOD MARSH

I. THE BEGINNINGS

II. MULTIPLICITY OF IDEAS

III. PROGRESS ON STANDARDISED LINES

IV. THE WAR PERIOD

PART III AEROSTATICS

I. BEGINNINGS

II. THE FIRST DIRIGIBLES

III. SANTOS-DUMONT

IV. THE MILITARY DIRIGIBLE

V. BRITISH AIRSHIP DESIGN

VI. THE AIRSHIP COMMERCIALLY

VII. KITE BALLOONS

PART IV. ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

I. THE VERTICAL TYPE

II. THE VEE TYPE

III. THE RADIAL TYPE

IV. THE ROTARY TYPE

V. THE HORIZONTALLY-OPPOSED ENGINE

VI. THE TWO-STROKE CYCLE ENGINE

VII. ENGINES OF THE WAR PERIOD

APPENDIX A - GENERAL MENSIER'S REPORT ON THE TRIALS OF CLEMENT ADER'S AVION.

APPENDIX B Specification and Claims of Wright Patent, No. 821393. Filed March 23rd, 1903. Issued May 22nd, 1906. Expires May 22nd, 1923.

APPENDIX C Proclamation published by the French Government on balloon ascents, 1783.

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