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A History of Aeronautics
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简介： 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 sel...
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FOREWORD
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Part I THE EVOLUTION OF THE AEROPLANE I THE PERIOD OF LEGEND
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II EARLY EXPERIMENTS
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III SIR GEORGE CAYLEY—THOMAS WALKER
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IV THE MIDDLE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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V WENHAM, LE BRIS, AND SOME OTHERS
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VI THE AGE OF THE GIANTS
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VII LILIENTHAL AND PILCHER
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VIII AMERICAN GLIDING EXPERIMENTS
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IX NOT PROVEN
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X SAMUEL PIERPOINT LANGLEY
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XI THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
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XII THE FIRST YEARS OF CONQUEST
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XIII FIRST FLIERS IN ENGLAND
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XIV RHEIMS, AND AFTER
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XV THE CHANNEL CROSSING
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XVI LONDON TO MANCHESTER
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XVII A SUMMARY, TO 1911
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XVIII A SUMMARY, TO 1914
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XIX THE WAR PERIOD—I
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XX THE WAR PERIOD—II
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XXI RECONSTRUCTION
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XXII 1919–20
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Part II 1903–1920: PROGRESS IN DESIGN I THE BEGINNINGS
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II MULTIPLICITY OF IDEAS
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III PROGRESS ON STANDARDISED LINES
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IV THE WAR PERIOD
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Part III AEROSTATICS I BEGINNINGS
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II THE FIRST DIRIGIBLES
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III SANTOS-DUMONT
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IV THE MILITARY DIRIGIBLE
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V BRITISH AIRSHIP DESIGN
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VI THE AIRSHIP COMMERCIALLY
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VII KITE BALLOONS
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Part IV ENGINE DEVELOPMENT I THE VERTICAL TYPE
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II THE VEE TYPE
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III THE RADIAL TYPE
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IV THE ROTARY TYPE
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V THE HORIZONTALLY-OPPOSED ENGINE
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VI THE TWO-STROKE CYCLE ENGINE
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VII ENGINES OF THE WAR PERIOD