Description: Early Flight 145 Vintage Books on Computer Disk An amazing collection of out-of-print rare books scanned to digital PDF format and put on to Disk all relating to Early Flying Machines and Flight.Airships, Dirigible, Zeppelin, Blimp, Balloons, early Aeroplanes - discover the history and development of these craft from their maiden flights through to further development. Learn of the history of the development of flight and the pioneers of aviation.Also included is 'Aircraft' magazine with issues from 1910-15 covering approximately 60 issues.If not preserved in this digital format then this invaluable information would be lost forever.The 10,000s of pages contain essential knowledge and insights, diagrams, images and explanations that provide a truly encyclopaedic library of knowledge that is unsurpassed. This totally unique collection is the most complete available. 145 Books on Computer disk (DVD) Nature of the itemThis item is a computer disk containing vintage, copyright-free books scanned into digital PDF format and provided to you on disk (as above); there is no physical book, there is no video, there is no audio. You will require a computer with a Disk drive to be able to view the PDF books with suitable PDF viewer software (which is universally available for Free). List - 145 Books on Disk14,000 miles through the air - R. M. Smith (1922)A heat transfer model of a heated helium airship - R. M. RapertA history of aeronautics - E. C. Vivian (1921)A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard - J. Jeffries (1786)A study of static stability of airships - F. Rizzo (1924)A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art - J. Wise (1850)A trip round the world in a flying machine - J. Verne (1887)Aerial locomotion, with a few notes of progress in the construction of an aerodome - A. G. Bell (1907)Aerial navigation - a practical handbook on the construction of dirigible balloons, aerostats, aeroplanes, and aeromotors - F. Walker (1902)Aerial navigation - A. de Bausset (1887)Aeronautica; or, Sketches illustrative of the theory and practice of aerostation - M. Mason (1838)Aeronautica; or, The history of aviation and aerostation...dating from the year 1557 to 1880 - J. Pearson & Co. (1900)Aeronautical world Vol. 1 (Aug 1903 - July 1903)Aeroplanes and dirigibles of war - F. Talbot (1915)Aircraft design data Vol. 1 - United States. Navy Department (1919)Aircraft design data Vol. 2 - United States. Navy Department (1919)Aircraft in war and peace - W. A. Robson (1916)Aircraft of all nations, a new series of photographs - H. Woodhouse (1917)Aircraft Vol. 1 (Mar. 1910 - Feb. 1911)Aircraft Vol. 2 (Mar. 1911 - Feb 1912)Aircraft Vol. 3 (Mar. 1912 - Feb 1913)Aircraft Vol. 4 (Mar 1913 - Feb 1914)Aircraft Vol. 5 (Mar 1914 - Feb. 1915)Airopaidia - containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785 - T. Baldwin (1786)Airplanes, airships, aircraft engines - A. Tucker (1921)Airships in peace & war - R. P. Hearne (1910)Airships past and present - A. Hildebrandt (1908)Airships Souvenir Booklet Summer 1936 - Navy Relief Society (1936)All about aircraft of today - F Talbot (1919)Andree's balloon expedition in search of the North pole - H. Lachambre (1898)Artificial and natural flight - H Maxim (1909)Astra castra - experiments and adventures in the atmosphere - C. H. Turnor (1865)Aviation - C Grahame-White (1912)Aviation, its principles, its present and future - S. F. Walker (1913)Ballooning - A Concise Sketch of Its History and Principles - G. May (1885)Ballooning as a Sport - B. Baden-Powell (1907)Balloons, airships and flying machines - G. Bacon (1905)Benjamin Franklin and the first balloons - A. L. Rotch (1907)British airships, past, present & future - G. Whale (1919)By land and sky - J. M. Bacon (1907)Commercial aviation in Germany past and future - W. Wronsky (1921)Dans l'air - A. Santos-Dumont (1904)De la navigation aerienne par les aerostats - A. Charvin (1864)Der praktische luftschiffer - R. Von Dallwitz-Wegner (1909)Description des experiences de la machine aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier (1783)Dictionary of aviation - R. M. Pierce (1911)Dirigible balloons - American School (1918)Dirigible Balloons - C Hayward (1912)D'Orcy's airship manual - an international register of airships with a compendium of the airship's elementary mechanics - L. D'Orcy (1917)Elementary Principles of Aeroplane Design - A Judge (1919)Fifty years of travel by land, water, and air - F. H. Butler (1920)Flying machines construction and operation; illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship - W. J. Jackman (1910)Flying machines past, present, and future. A popular account of flying machines, dirigible balloons and aeroplanes - A. W. Marshall (1914)Flying machines practice and design. Their principles, construction and working - R. Kennedy (1909)Flying machines to day - W. D. Ennis (1911)Flying men & their machines - C. Winchester (1916)Germany's fighting machine - her army, her navy, her air-ships - E. F. Henderson (1914)Glossary of aviation terms. Termes d'aviation. English-French. Français-anglais - V. W. Page (1917)Harper's aircraft book; why aeroplanes fly, how to make models, and all about aircraft, little and big -A Verrill (1913)Heroes of aviation - L. Driggs (1918)Histoire de mes ascensions - recit de vingt-quatre voyages aeriens (1868-1877) - G. Tissandier (1880)Histoire des ballons et des aeronautes celebres Vol. 1 - G. Tissandier (1887)Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes celebres Vol. 2 - G. Tissandier (1887)Histoire des ballons et des locomotives aériennes depuis Dédale jusqu a Petin - M. Bescherelle (1851)Historie des ballons et des ascensions celebres; avec une preface de Nadar dessins de A. Tissandier et des meilleurs artistes - A. Sircos (1876)How an aeroplane is built - S Blakeney (1918)How it flies; or, The conquest of the air; the story of man's endeavors to fly and of the inventions by which he has succeeded - R. Ferris (1910)Im reich der lufte - A. Santos-Dumont (1905)Instructions for making pilot balloon observations - United States Weather Bureau (1942)Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793 - J. P. Blanchard (1918)La conquete de l'air - L. Sazorac de Forge (1907)La navigation aerienne - P. Hettinger (1910)La navigation aerienne et les ballons dirigeables - R. Marquis (1888)L'Aerophile Vol. 10 (Jan - Dec 1902)L'Aerophile Vol. 13 (Jan - Dec 1905)L'Aerophile Vol. 15 (Jan - Dec 1907)L'Aerophile Vol. 16 (Jan - Dec 1908)L'Aerophile Vol. 17 (Jan - Dec 1909)L'Aerophile Vol. 18 (Jan - Dec 1910)L'Aerophile Vol. 6 (Jan - Dec 1898)L'Aerophile Vol. 7 (Jan - Dec 1899)L'Aerophile Vol. 8 (Jan - Dec 1900)L'Aerophile Vol. 9 (Jan - Dec 1901)Le grand ballon captif a vapeur de M. Henry Giffard cour des Tuileries--Paris, 1878 - G. Tissandier (1878)Learning to fly A practical manual for beginners - C Grahame-White (1916)Les aerostats - L. Figuier (1887)Les ballons dirigeables - expe´riences de m. Henri Giffard en 1852 et en 1855 et de m. Dupuy de Lome en 1872 - G. TissandiLuftfahrzeugbau, konstruktion von luftschiffen und flugmaschinen - F. Huth (1909)Military observation balloons - a complete treatise on their manufacture, equipment, inspection, and handling - E. J. Widmer (1917)My air-ships - A. Santos-dumont (1904)My life and balloon experiences - H. T. Coxwell (1887)Our Atlantic attempt - H. G. Hawker (1919)Principle of the Boerner airship - Kapteyn (1905)Procedure for determining speed and climbing performance of airships - F. Thompson (1936)r. Haddock's narrative of his hazardous and exciting voyage in the balloon Atlantic - (1872)Role of technology in the failure of the rigid airship as an invention - P. Bradshaw (1975)The flight across the Atlantic - Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation (1919)The flyer's guide; an elementary handbook for aviators - N Gill (1917)The flying machine boys in the wilds or, The mystery of the Andes - F Walton (1913)The mechanics of the aeroplane, a study of the principles of flight - E Duchene (1912)The new art of flying - W. Kaempffert (1911)The prehistory of aviation - B. Laufer (1928)The principles of aeroplane construction. With calculations, formulae and 51 diagrams - R Kennedy (1911)The problem of manflight - J Means (1894)The record of an aeronaut, being the life of John M. Bacon - G. Bacon (1907)The romance of aeronautics, an interesting account of the growth & achievements of all kinds of aerial craft - C. C. Turner (1912)The spider web, the romance of a flying-boat war flight - D. Hallam (1919)The story of the aeroplane - C Grahame-White (c.1911)The triplane and the stable biplane; reprinted from 'Engineering' - J Hunsaker (1918)The type 'M' kite balloon handbook (1919)The zeppelin destroyer; being some chapters of secret history - W Le Queux (1916)Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation - E. S. Valentine (1902)Travels in the air - J. Glaisher (1871)Travels through space with Parseval! (1910)Up in the clouds; or, Balloon voyages - R. M. Ballantyne (1870)Vehicles of the air - a popular exposition of modern aeronautics with working drawings - V. Lougheed (1909)Wonderful ballon ascents or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages - F. Marion (1870)Wood in aircraft construction (1919)Zeppelin; the story of a great achievement - H. Vissering (1922)Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins - R. P. Hearne (1916)Zeppelins, the past and future - E. Campbell (1918) Important Information - Please read BEFORE you purchase 1. The item is a collection of books scanned into digital format (PDF) and stored on a disk. 2. There is no physical books included in the sale - you will receive a data disk only. 3. The disk(s) you receive will contain no audio or video whatsoever. 4. To view the books you will need a computer (or similar device) that can open PDF files. 5. PDF reader software is universally available for Free. 6. The disks will not "play" on a standard CD player or DVD player connected to a home TV. 7. The disk you receive will come in a protective sleeve - there is no box. 8. Because they are data disks there are no regional settings i.e. they will work on any computer anywhere in the world. What your Books will look like The books will be scanned in exactly in the condition they are available to us.That means if a page has any marks on it, writing in the margin etc. that will also be scanned in. They are afterall, very old books and will inevitably shows signs of ageing, your scanned version will also reflect those signs of ageing Frequently Asked Questions Can I search the disk to find a particular book? Yes. The book titles are made as detailed as possible specifically to facilitate easy search and find criteria. Can I resize the books to make them easier to read? Yes. Using your PDF viewer software, you will be able to make the book and font size as large or as small as you wish. Can I print the books? Yes. You can print a whole book, just a chapter or just one page. 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Price: 4.6 GBP
Location: Blackwood
End Time: 2024-12-03T07:07:42.000Z
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Non-Fiction Subject: Flying Aircraft early Flight Airships, Balloons
Language: English
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Author: Various