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A History of Aeronautics

by Evelyn Charles Vivian and W. Lockwood Marsh

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Part I | The Evolution of the Aeroplane
  3. 3II — Early Experiments
  4. 4III — Sir George Cayley — Thomas Walker
  5. 5IV — The Middle Nineteenth Century
  6. 6V — Wenham, le Bris, and Some Others
  7. 7VI — The Age of the Giants
  8. 8VII — Lilienthal and Pilcher
  9. 9VIII — American Gliding Experiments
  10. 10IX — Not Proven
  11. 11X — Samuel Pierpoint Langley
  12. 12XI — The Wright Brothers
  13. 13XII — The First Years of Conquest
  14. 14XIII — First Fliers in England
  15. 15XIV — Rheims, and After
  16. 16XV — The Channel Crossing
  17. 17XVI — London to Manchester
  18. 18XVII — A Summary, to 1911
  19. 19XVIII — A Summary, to 1914
  20. 20XIX — The War Period — I
  21. 21XX — The War Period — II
  22. 22XXI — Reconstruction
  23. 23XXII. 1919-20
  24. 24Part II | 1903-1920: Progress in Design by Lieut.-Col. W. Lockwood…
  25. 25II — Multiplicity of Ideas
  26. 26III — Progress on Standardised Lines
  27. 27IV — The War Period
  28. 28Part III | Aerostatics
  29. 29II — The First Dirigibles
  30. 30III — Santos-Dumont
  31. 31IV — The Military Dirigible
  32. 32V — British Airship Design
  33. 33VI — The Airship Commercially
  34. 34VII — Kite Balloons
  35. 35Part IV | Engine Development
  36. 36II — The Vee Type
  37. 37III — The Radial Type
  38. 38IV — The Rotary Type
  39. 39V — The Horizontally-Opposed Engine
  40. 40VI — The Two-Stroke Cycle Engine
  41. 41VII — Engines of the War Period
  42. 42Appendix a General Mensier’s Report on the Trials of Clement Ader’s…
  43. 43Appendix B
  44. 44Appendix C

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