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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches : containing aigrettes amber-lights balloons ... yew-trees with all their ingredients, compositions, preparations, machines, moulds, and manner to make them, refining salt-petre, and to extract it from damaged gunpowder, &c, with about 100 of the principal figures beautifully engraved on copper plates ...Author: ['Jones, Robert, Captain', 'Darling, William', 'Millan, John, -1782', 'Jones, Robert, Captain. New treatise on artificial fireworks']
The Aircraft Identification Book. A Concise Guide to the Recognition of Different Types and Makes of all kinds of Aeroplanes and Airships [1919]Author: R Borlase Matthews and G T Clarkson
The airships parade : march, two stepAuthor: ['Geary, T. Mayo. cmp', 'Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI']
The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, etc., etcAuthor: Williams, Archibald. [from old catalog]
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeonAuthor: ['Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870', 'Story, W. H. tr']
The romance of modern invention, containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines, dirigible torpedoes, solar motors, airships, etc., etcAuthor: Williams, Archibald
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930086506: Effect of ratio between volume and surface area of airshipsAuthor: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
(1) A Compendium of Aviation and Arostation: Balloons, Dirigibles and Flying-machines (2) The Helicopter Flying-machine: an Account of Previous Experiments, including an Analysis of the Author's Turbine MachineAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Germany's fighting machine : her army, her navy, her airships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of EuropeAuthor: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Military observation balloons (captive and free) a complete treatise on their manufacture, equipment, inspection, and handling, with special instructions for the training of a field balloon companyAuthor: Widmer, Emil Joseph, 1889-
AΓ«rial Navigation: a Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, AΓ«rostats, AΓ«roplanes and AΓ«romotors Submarine Warfare, Past, Present and FutureAuthor: C. V. B.
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930086411: Structural and Economic Limits to the Dimensions of AirshipsAuthor: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Airopaidia: containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage: hints on the improvement of balloons ... to which is subjoined mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aeΜrial navigation. With a copious indexAuthor: ['Baldwin, Thomas, aeronaut', 'Burndy Library, donor. DSI']
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeonAuthor: ['Hildebrandt, Alfred, 1870-', 'Story, W. H.']
The aero manual; a manual of mechanically-propelled human flight, covering the history of the work of early investigators, and of the pioneer work of the last century. Recent successes, and the reasons therefor, are dealt with, together with full constructive details concerning airships, aeroplanes, gliders, etcAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art. Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. In three parts. Containing an account of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means, from the earliest period down to the discovery of the aeronautic machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages. Also, full instructions in the art of making balloons ..Author: Wise, John, 1808-1879
The βCβ-Launch Technique for High-Altitudes BalloonsAuthor: ['Thomas A. Edison, Inc', 'Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC', 'White, James H. (James Henry), production', 'Blechynden, Frederick, camera']
D'Orcy's Airship Manual: An International Register Of Airships, With A Compendium Of The Airship's Elementary MechanicsAuthor: Orcy, Ladislas d', editor
Hairbreadth escapes of Major Mendax [microform] : his perilous encounters, startling adventures, and daring exploits with Indians, cannibals, wild beasts, serpents, balloons, geysers, etc., etc., all over the world, in the bowels of the earth, and above the clouds : a personal narrativeAuthor: Crofton, Francis Blake, 1841-1912
The A-B-C of aviation; a complete, practical treatise outlining clearly the elements of aeronautical engineering, with special reference to simplified explanations of the theory of flight, aerodynamics and basic principles underlying the action of balloons and airplanes of all typesAuthor: PageΜ, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947
The Hague declarations of 1899 (IV, 1) and 1907 (XIV) prohibiting the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloonsAuthor: International Peace Conference -- (1st : 1899 : Hague, Netherlands)
Convention between the United States and certain powers for the pacific settlement of international disputes ... Convention between the United States of America and certain powers for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva convention of August 22, 1864 ... Declaration to prohibit for the term of five years the launching of projectiles and explosives from balloons, and other new methods of a similar natureAuthor: ['Hague. 1899', "United States. Adjutant-General's Office"]
Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aeΜronaut. Comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time. With an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes. Also, an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloonsAuthor: Wise, John, 1808-1879
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930080969: Note on the pressure distribution over the hull of elongated airships with circular cross sectionAuthor: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930080851: The Employment of Airships for the Transport of PassengersAuthor: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
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Airships in peace & war, being the second edition of Aerial warfare; β ['Hearne, R. P', 'Maxim, Hiram Stevens, Sir, 1840-1916']
Operating equipment for U. S. army observation balloons β United States. Army. Air corps. [from old catalog]
British airships, past, present & future β Whale, George
The Book of Airships β .
Declaration Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons
Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches : containing aigrettes amber-lights balloons ... yew-trees with all their ingredients, compositions, preparations, machines, moulds, and manner to make them, refining salt-petre, and to extract it from damaged gunpowder, &c, with about 100 of the principal figures beautifully engraved on copper plates ... β ['Jones, Robert, Captain', 'Darling, William', 'Millan, John, -1782', 'Jones, Robert, Captain. New treatise on artificial fireworks']
Stigler - Dirigible Airship, French Patent 401629 of 1909 β Massimo Stigler
My AirShips: The Story of My Life β Alberto Santos-Dumont
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