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Dirigible dreams : the age of the airship / / C. Michael Hiam



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Autore: Hiam C. Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dirigible dreams : the age of the airship / / C. Michael Hiam Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61168-697-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820458103321
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