Taking Flight
Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Richard Hallion
531 pages· 2003· ISBN 9780195160352
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Uses extracts from journals, diaries, and memoirs, as well as rare photographs and drawings, to provide a history of humanity's attempts at flight, including kites, balloons, rockets, and steerable airships.
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