100 Vintage Books

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Explore a carefully organised historical library devoted to balloons, airships & early flight. ZipMyBook is a UK-based seller. This is a tangible product: one USB drive will be posted to you; it is not an email or download link.

Contents	100 historical books in PDF format
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Organisation	Clearly named folders plus a title index
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Subjects inside the collection

Balloons
Airships & Early Flight
Research and illustrated sources

A selection of included titles

Airships in peace & war, being the second edition of Aerial warfare; — ['Hearne, R. P', 'Maxim, Hiram Stevens, Sir, 1840-1916']
Operating equipment for U. S. army observation balloons — United States. Army. Air corps. [from old catalog]
British airships, past, present & future — Whale, George
The Book of Airships — .
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 ... — ['Jones, Robert, Captain', 'Darling, William', 'Millan, John, -1782', 'Jones, Robert, Captain. New treatise on artificial fireworks']
Stigler - Dirigible Airship, French Patent 401629 of 1909 — Massimo Stigler
My AirShips: The Story of My Life — Alberto Santos-Dumont

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Books in this Collection (100 titles)

Airships in peace & war, being the second edition of Aerial warfare; — ['Hearne, R. P', 'Maxim, Hiram Stevens, Sir, 1840-1916']
Operating equipment for U. S. army observation balloons — United States. Army. Air corps. [from old catalog]
British airships, past, present & future — Whale, George
The Book of Airships — .
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 ... — ['Jones, Robert, Captain', 'Darling, William', 'Millan, John, -1782', 'Jones, Robert, Captain. New treatise on artificial fireworks']
Stigler - Dirigible Airship, French Patent 401629 of 1909 — Massimo Stigler
My AirShips: The Story of My Life — Alberto Santos-Dumont
The Aircraft Identification Book. A Concise Guide to the Recognition of Different Types and Makes of all kinds of Aeroplanes and Airships [1919] — R Borlase Matthews and G T Clarkson
Airships Past and Present — A Hilderbrandt
The airships parade : march, two step — ['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., etc — Williams, Archibald. [from old catalog]
Aërial Navigation: A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Ballons — C. E. Frederick Walker
Aërial Navigation: A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible ... — Frederick Walker
Note on the Instability of India-Rubber Tubes and Balloons When Distended by Fluid Pressure — Mallock, A.
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon — ['Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870', 'Story, W. H. tr']
Traffic airships with special reference to economy — Leyensetter, Walthe
Dirigible balloons; — ['American School (Lansing, Ill.)', 'Hayward, Charles B. (Charles Brian), 1876-']
Captive Balloons
My Airships — Dumont, Alberto Santos
The Use of Balloons in the War Between Italy and Turkey
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., etc — Williams, Archibald
Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages — Marion, Fulgence
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930086506: Effect of ratio between volume and surface area of airships — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Wonderful balloon ascents : or, the conquest of the skies ; a history of balloons and balloon voyages — Marion, Fulgence
(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 Machine
Effect of solar radiation upon balloons. — Edwards, J.D.; Long, M.B.
Germany's fighting machine : her army, her navy, her airships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe — Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
The Exploration of the Upper Air by Means of Kites and Balloons — Blair, William R.
The Use of Helium for Airships
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 company — Widmer, Emil Joseph, 1889-
On Obtaining Meteorological Records in the Upper Air by Means of Kites and Balloons — Rotch, A. Lawrence
Aërial Navigation: a Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aërostats, Aëroplanes and Aëromotors Submarine Warfare, Past, Present and Future — C. V. B.
Airplanes, airships, aircraft engines — Tucker, Albert, 1875-
Balloons and Kites in the Service of Meteorology — W. H. DINES
Balloons — Elizabeth Bibesco
Against Airships in War
Aërial navigation; a practical handbook on the construction of dirigible balloons, aërostats, aëroplanes, and aëromotors — Walker, Frederick
Kinnear - Balloons for Illumination, British Patent 4684 of 1881 — Frederick Constantine Kinnear
Notes on aerodynamic forces III : the aerodynamic forces on airships — Munk, Max
Airplanes,Airships, Aircraft Engines — Lieut. Albert Tucker
Note on the pressure distribution over the hull of elongated airships with circular cross section — Munk, Max
High Rates of Ascent of Pilot-Balloons — W. VAN BEMMELEN
Flying machines: past, present, and future. A popular account of flying machines, dirigible balloons and aeroplanes — Marshall, Alfred William
Atmospheric Electricity Observed from Balloons — GEORGE C. SIMPSON
Wills Famous Inventors No. 31 - Dirigible — W. D. & H. O. Wills
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930086411: Structural and Economic Limits to the Dimensions of Airships — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930084599: The effect of bow stiffeners in nonrigid airships — 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 aërial navigation. With a copious index — ['Baldwin, Thomas, aeronaut', 'Burndy Library, donor. DSI']
The Structure of the Atmosphere in Clear Weather: a Study of Soundings with Pilot Balloons — W. N. SHAW
The structure of the atmosphere in clear weather; a study of soundings with pilot balloons — Cave, C. J. P. (Charles John Philip), b. 1871
Balloons and Ballooning
El dirigible : fantasía cómico-lírica en dos actos, divididos en seis cuadros, en prosa y verso — ['Luna, Pablo, 1879-1942', 'Escobar, Arturo, 1951-', 'González del Castillo, Emilio, 1883-1940', 'Noriega Olea, Fernando', 'Tellaeche, José, 1887-1948']
Flight : the aircraft engineer & airships — ['Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom', 'Royal Aero Club (Great Britain)']
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon — ['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, etc
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 .. — Wise, John, 1808-1879
The employment of airships for the transport of passengers — Nobile, Umbert
A Short History of Balloons and Flying Machines — John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott Montagu , Lord Montagu, Baden F. S. Baden-Powell
The Exploration of the Upper Air by Means of Kites and Balloons — William R Blair
The boys' book of airships — ['Delacombe, Harry', 'Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992, former owner. DSI']
Note on the Instability of India-Rubber Tubes and Balloons When Distended by Fluid Pressure — A. Mallock
The boys' book of airships — Delacombe, Harry
On the Value of Possible Observations from Free Balloons — J. M. Bacon
The structure of the atmosphere in clear weather, a study of soundings with pilot balloons — Cave, Charles John Philip, 1871-
Benjamin Franklin and the first balloons — Rotch, Abbott Lawrence, 1861-1912
The “C”-Launch Technique for High-Altitudes Balloons — ['Thomas A. Edison, Inc', 'Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC', 'White, James H. (James Henry), production', 'Blechynden, Frederick, camera']
Balloons — Bibesco, Elizabeth, 1897-1945
D'Orcy's Airship Manual: An International Register Of Airships, With A Compendium Of The Airship's Elementary Mechanics — Orcy, Ladislas d', editor
War-Balloons
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 narrative — Crofton, Francis Blake, 1841-1912
A study of static stability of airships — Rizzo, Fran
Air Balloons
On the First Observations with Registration Balloons in America — Rotch, A. Lawrence
Balloons, Airships and Flying Machines — Gertrude Bacon
Paulitschky - Dirigible aircraft for aerial navigation, French Patent 375975 of 1907 — Carl Paulitschky and Rosa Paulitschky
Observations on the method of determining the velocity of airships — Volterra, Vit
Dirigible Balloons
['The Structure Of The Atmosphere In Clear Weather', 'A Study Of Soundings With Pilot Balloons.'] — Cave,C.J.P.
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 types — Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947
The Hague declarations of 1899 (IV, 1) and 1907 (XIV) prohibiting the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons — International Peace Conference -- (1st : 1899 : Hague, Netherlands)
D'Orcy's Airship Manual: An International Register of Airships with a Compendium of the Airship ... — Ladislas D'Orcy
The Elasticity of Rubber Balloons and Hollow Viscera — ['Osborne, W.', 'Sutherland, W.']
Dirigible Balloons — Charles B Hayward
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 nature — ['Hague. 1899', "United States. Adjutant-General's Office"]
Through the air: a narrative of forty years' experience as an aëronaut. 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 balloons — Wise, John, 1808-1879
UNCLE WIGGILY' S LAUGHING GAS BALLOONS-Bk20- By HOWARD R. GARIS - GUNSTON CLASSICS — HOWARD R. GARIS / GUNSTON CLASSICS
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930091181: The drag of Zeppelin airships — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Note on the Ascent of Meteorological Balloons and the Temperature of the Upper Air — A. Mallock
Balloons, airships and flying machines; — Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949
Note on the Ascent of Meteorological Balloons and the Temperature of the Upper Air — Mallock, A.
The Launching of Projectiles from Balloons — Davis, George B.
D'Orcy's airship manual; an international register of airships with a compendium of the airship's elementary mechanics — Orcy, Ladislas d'
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930080771: Traffic airships with special reference to economy — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930084559: Replacing the weight of materials consumed on airships — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930080969: Note on the pressure distribution over the hull of elongated airships with circular cross section — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930091270: Forces on Airships in Gusts — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930080851: The Employment of Airships for the Transport of Passengers — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930084036: Use of helium in airships — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930086524: Mooring airships — NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

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