Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (x, 335 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : Patterns of innovation in aeronautical technology / Roger D. Launius -- Langley and Wright aero accidents : two responses to early aeronautical innovation and government patronage / Norriss S. Hetherington -- Innovation in America's aviation support infrastructure : the evolving relationship between airports, cities, and industry / Janet R. Daly Bednarek -- Search for an instrument landing system, 1918-48 / William M. Leary -- Higher, faster, and farther : fueling the aeronautical revolution, 1919-45 / Stephen L. McFarland -- Engineering successful innovation : Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, 1925-40 / Bayla Singer -- Three-miles-a-minute : the National Advisory Committee for aeronautics and the development of the modern airliner / Deborah G. Douglas -- An airplane for everyman : the Department of Commerce and the light airplane industry, 1933-37 / Tom D. Crouch -- Paths for flight : innovation and the origin of radar / Louis Brown -- Rocket aircraft and the "turbojet revolution" : the Luftwaffe's quest for high-speed flight, 1935-39 / Michael J. Neufeld -- Revolutionary innovation and the invisible infrastructure : making Royal Air Force bomber command efficient, 1939-45 / Robin Higham -- Riding England's coattails : the U.S. Army Air Forces and the turbojet revolution / James O. Young -- Command innovation : lessons from the National Aerospace Plane program / Larry Schweikart. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Aeronautics -- History.
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Aeronautics. |
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History. |
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Aeronautics -- Technological innovations -- History.
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Aeronautics -- Technological innovations. |
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Flight -- History.
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Flight. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Launius, Roger D.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Innovation and the development of flight. 1st ed. College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©1999 0890968764 (DLC) 98048723 (OCoLC)40143032 |
ISBN |
0585371946 (electronic book) |
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9780585371948 (electronic book) |
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0890968764 (cloth) |
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9780890968765 (cloth) |
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