Dirigible dreams : the age of the airship / / C. Michael Hiam
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| Autore: |
Hiam C. Michael
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| Titolo: |
Dirigible dreams : the age of the airship / / C. Michael Hiam
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| Pubblicazione: | Lebanon, New Hampshire : , : ForeEdge, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 629.13324 |
| Soggetto topico: | Airships |
| Airships - Design and construction | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page [1]; Title Page [2]; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated the imaginations of people worldwide, but in less than fifty years dirigible became a byword for doomed futurism, an Icarian figure of industrial hubris. Dirigible Dreams looks back on this bygone era, when the future of exploration, commercial travel, and warfare largely involved the prospect of wingless flight. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dirigible dreams |
| ISBN: | 1-61168-697-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787949903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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