A History of Flying.pdf

A History of Flying
F. A. Praeger Publishers | 1954 | ISBN: N/A | English | 312 pages | PDF | 61 MB

This book offers a short account of man's attempts to fly; of his dreams that preceded and accompanied the attempts ; and of his ultimate success. The story begins in legend, and follows the centuries of speculation and endeavour that culminated in balloon flight at the end of the eighteenth century, and aeroplane flight at the beginning of the twentieth. The more detailed chronicle stops with the year 1914, when the first World War broke out. By this time aviation had taken its place as a new but practical method of locomotion.