Aeronautics
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Flying MacHines: Construction and Operation
Thomas Herbert Russell (1862-1947) was an American author and Charter Member of the Aero Club of Illinois. His works include: Automobile Driving Self-Taught (1909), Automobile Motors and Mechanism (1909), Ignition, Timing and Valve Setting (1909), Flying Machines (with Octave Chanute & William James Jackman) (1910), Canadian Commercial Law and Legal Forms (with William James Jackman) (1910), Salesmanship: Theory and Practice (1910), Commercial Law and Legal Forms (with William James Jackman) (1910), Advertising Methods and Mediums (1910). Octave Chanute (1832-1910) was a French-born American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer. He provided the Wright brothers with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. He designed and built the Hannibal Bridge which was the first bridge to cross the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri in 1869. He published this as a series of articles first published in The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893, and collected together in Progress in Flying Machine in 1894. This was the first organised, written collection of aviation research.
Flying the Coast Skyways or Jack Ralston’s Swift Patrol
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Hal Kenyon Disappears
"Hal Kenyon operated the device. The drill revolved rapidly in the socket, and presently a fine brown powder was flowing into the notch. In a few seconds this powder was smoking densely and slight fanning with a hat brought a flame. Some of the tinder was now applied and after a little blowing, a tiny flame leaped up. The rest of the tinder was then applied, followed by some cedar bark and small wood. Pretty soon the fire was roaring and crackling, while the boys piled on more fuel. "Now for our camp-fire yell," cried Hal when the last armful of fuel had been deposited on the burning heap. Immediately the canon rang and echoed with thirty young voices chanting the following: "Camp-fire, rah! Smoke-punk, ha! Tinder, Lakefarm! Rah-rah-rah!" This yell was repeated several times until it seemed as if the rocks [...].""
Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners
"Learning to Fly: A Practical Manual for Beginners" by Harry Harper, Claude Grahame-White. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Let Freedom Ring and the Machine That Floats
Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels. Our first novel, "Let Freedom Ring," is by renown author, Fritz Leiber. Imagine what it would be like...to be told that it was your duty to die? That's what Normsi faced when he found his "death notice" waiting for him at home one afternoon. Normsi was strongly reminded that under World Director M'Caslrai's rule, peace had prospered in all nations. In fact, a single government had ruled the Earth's populace for two centuries and there hadn't been a civil war in over a hundred years. But the price for this peace was paid in the form of controlled casualties--millions would die so that billions could live. However, this kind of patriotic obligation didn't sit well with Normsi, so he left his comfortable life in New City and gambled his future on the dark streets of Old City, a harbor for deviates, discontents, and murderers. But there he met a strange girl--a girl that gave him new hope and a new direction. Her name was J'Quilvens, and she was part of a revolutionary group with a desperate plan for true world peace--and a permanent end to the "patriotic" slaughter. The second novel is "The Machine that Floats" by veteran sci-fi author Joe Gibson. What if you invented a new spaceship? Would you give it to the world? And what if you decided not to? Would the government brand you a traitor--a criminal to be hunted down? These were questions that Bill Morrow faced after inventing a revolutionary gravity control mechanism...the gravitor, which could make things float without high-powered engines and flaming jet fuel. Objects floated up into the air, unaffected by gravity. The gravitor held promise of opening doors in many areas of science and commerce. But in the wrong hands, it could also be used as a dreadful weapon. Bill Morrow realized this, so he decided to develop the gravitor secretly. Morrow knew it would be no easy task though, because everyone knew that secrets were tough to keep...
Mastery of the Air
According to the Preface: "This book makes no pretence of going minutely into the technical and scientific sides of human flight: rather does it deal mainly with the real achievements of pioneers who have helped to make aviation what it is to-day." According to Wikipedia: "William Gordon Claxton DSO, DFC & Bar (June 1, 1899?September 28, 1967) was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with 37 victories. He became the leading ace in his squadron."
Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl
"[...]bettered the betty element a little," she confided, the spice of her mixed cognomen floating in her eye. It was a joke with her, that chowchow name-original mixture-and how she came by it. Her father, Professor Guy Noel Lorry, Fellow of Nevil University, -Toandoah, the inventor, she called him, -wearing his symbol, a saw-toothed triangle, embroidered with her own upon her ceremonial dress-had at one time almost prayed for a son, a boy who might help him to realize the dream, even then taking hold upon his heart, of conquering not the air alone but space-zero space, in which it was thought nothing could [...]."
Robur the Conqueror
Robur, a character very much like Verne's maybe best-known hero Captain Nemo, tries to build the world's heavier-than-air-ship, the Albatross. He gets all the publicity, which is not very much what one of America's ballon clubs wants him to get. Robur finally captures a few members of the club and off they go on a pretty weird journey around the world ...
The Adventure Girls in the Air
"Girls of the senior class of Marchton High compose the Adventure Club, ready for any excitement. They see an airplane crash on an island, and go to the pilot's assistance. He and Gale take her father to Canada on business; and, returning without him, pilot and girl crash. While he goes for help, Gale, her memory a blank, wanders into the woods where she finds refuge in a tiny farmhouse. A search lasting for weeks ends when the aviator finds her, falls in love, proposes and is accepted. Then the girl enters college to complete her education." , from jacket.
