Author: LOUGHEED, Victor.
Title: Vehicles of the Air. A popular exposition with working drawings.
Description: Chicago, Reilly and Britton 1909. Solid octavo publisher's cloth; 479pp and some 269 photo illustrations and diagrams etc through the text. Quite a good copy. ¶ First edition and right up to date; published in November 1909 it covers the Paris Aeronautical Salon which closed in mid October. I hope whoever organised the illustrations for this book was never allowed near the blueprint of a machine. I trust it wasn't Lougheed, who designed motors. Nor his brothers who became Lockheed Aircraft Company. Lougheed anticipates a future with small machines for one or two persons, cheaper than a motorcycle; more or less an evolutionary step from the motor car in terms of individual freedom.
Keywords: science technology aviation aeronautics c20th transport
Title: Vehicles of the Air. A popular exposition with working drawings.
Description: Chicago, Reilly and Britton 1909. Solid octavo publisher's cloth; 479pp and some 269 photo illustrations and diagrams etc through the text. Quite a good copy. ¶ First edition and right up to date; published in November 1909 it covers the Paris Aeronautical Salon which closed in mid October. I hope whoever organised the illustrations for this book was never allowed near the blueprint of a machine. I trust it wasn't Lougheed, who designed motors. Nor his brothers who became Lockheed Aircraft Company. Lougheed anticipates a future with small machines for one or two persons, cheaper than a motorcycle; more or less an evolutionary step from the motor car in terms of individual freedom.
Keywords: science technology aviation aeronautics c20th transport
Price: AUD 150.00 = appr. US$ 103.78 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8750
- Book number: 8750