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The Genesis of Flight : Aeronautical History Collection of Col. Richard Gimbel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very clean unmarked copy with no dog eared pages. Light external wear.”
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Japan
- Subjects
- Transport
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780295978116
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295978112
ISBN-13
9780295978116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
575008
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
380 Pages
Publication Name
Genesis of Flight : the Aeronautical History Collection of Colonel Richard Gimbel.
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Military / United States, Military / Aviation, Library & Information Science / Cataloging & Classification, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
64.1 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
99-010107
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
016.62913
Synopsis
The Genesis of Flight illustrates one of the most prestigious aeronautical history collections in existence, covering the history of man's dream of flight from antiquity to the advent of powered flight at the beginning of the 20th century. The items included are drawn from more than 20,000 objects that vividly reflect both humanity's vision and its fulfillment. Five-thousand-year-old seals carved from semiprecious stones and used to inscribe clay tablets record the earliest conception of flight. Among the collection's thousands of books are priceless volumes printed before 1501. Many, such as Robert Hooke's Philosophical Collections (1682), are serious, scientific studies of the possibility of flight. Others are about imaginary voyages into space and to other worlds, including Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1547), Cyrano de Bergerac's account of a voyage to the moon first published in 1650, and, of course, the 19th-century classics of Jules Verne. More than 2,000 prints, portraits, engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs comprise a unique and arresting pictorial history of aeronautics. Important letters written by pioneers of flight--Montgolfier, Blanchard, Lunardi, Lilienthal, Count von Zeppelin, Santos-Dumont, Langley, and the Wright brothers--are to be found among the collection's manuscript holdings. There are also rare commemorative medallions, sheet music, posters, dime novels, postcards and postage stamps, early flight manuals, catalogues of aircraft equipment, match boxes, and children's games and toys--all recording, in one way or another, humanity's aspirations to fly.The collection was assembled by Richard Gimbel (1898-1970), who began collecting while serving with the 8th U.S. Army Air Force in England during World War II, and continued after becoming curator of aeronautical literature at Yale University. The collection was donated to the United States Air Force Academy upon his death.The contributors include Tom D. Crouch, National Air and Space Museum; Clive Hart, University of Essex, England; Paul Maravelas, University of Minnesota Libraries; Ellen Morris, University of Pennsylvania; Dominick A. Pisano, National Air and Space Museum; Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania; and Edward Rochette, American Numismatics Association.
LC Classification Number
Z5063.G53 2000
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