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A History of Aeronautics

Evelyn Charles Vivian and W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh

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Table of contents

1. FOREWORD 2. I. THE PERIOD OF LEGEND 3. II. EARLY EXPERIMENTS 4. III. SIR GEORGE CAYLEY—THOMAS WALKER 5. IV. THE MIDDLE NINETEENTH CENTURY 6. V. WENHAM, LE BRIS, AND SOME OTHERS 7. VI. THE AGE OF THE GIANTS 8. VII. LILIENTHAL AND PILCHER 9. VIII. AMERICAN GLIDING EXPERIMENTS 10. IX. NOT PROVEN 11. X. SAMUEL PIERPOINT LANGLEY 12. XI. THE WRIGHT BROTHERS 13. XII. THE FIRST YEARS OF CONQUEST 14. XIII. FIRST FLIERS IN ENGLAND 15. XIV. RHEIMS, AND AFTER 16. XV. THE CHANNEL CROSSING 17. XVI. LONDON TO MANCHESTER 18. XVII. A SUMMARY, TO 1911 19. XVIII. A SUMMARY, TO 1914 20. XIX. THE WAR PERIOD—I 21. XX. THE WAR PERIOD—II 22. XXI. RECONSTRUCTION 23. XXII. 1919-20 24. PART II. 1903-1920: PROGRESS IN DESIGN 25. I. THE BEGINNINGS 26. II. MULTIPLICITY OF IDEAS 27. III. PROGRESS ON STANDARDISED LINES 28. IV. THE WAR PERIOD 29. I. BEGINNINGS 30. II. THE FIRST DIRIGIBLES 31. III. SANTOS-DUMONT 32. IV. THE MILITARY DIRIGIBLE 33. V. BRITISH AIRSHIP DESIGN 34. VI. THE AIRSHIP COMMERCIALLY 35. VII. KITE BALLOONS 36. I. THE VERTICAL TYPE 37. II. THE VEE TYPE 38. III. THE RADIAL TYPE 39. IV. THE ROTARY TYPE 40. V. THE HORIZONTALLY-OPPOSED ENGINE 41. VI. THE TWO-STROKE CYCLE ENGINE 42. VII. ENGINES OF THE WAR PERIOD 43. APPENDIX A 44. APPENDIX B 45. APPENDIX C

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