Название: Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
Автор: Richard P. Hallion
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 568
Размер: 124,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.