My Air-Ships
eBook - ePub

My Air-Ships

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

My Air-Ships

About this book

This early work on Alberto Santos-Dumont is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the journeys of an air-ship traveller and his experiences. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone interested in air-ship history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Information

Publisher
Caffin Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781408609613
eBook ISBN
9781447486763

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Introductory Fable
  6. I. The Coffee Plantation
  7. II. Paris—Professional Balloonists—Automobiles
  8. III. My First Balloon Ascent
  9. IV. My “Brazil”—smallest of Spherical Balloons
  10. V. The Real and the Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning
  11. VI. I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea
  12. VII. My First Air-Ship Cruises (1898)
  13. VIII. How it feels to Navigate the Air
  14. IX. Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases
  15. X. I go in for Air-Ship Building
  16. XI. The Exposition Summer
  17. XII. The Deutsch Prize and its Problems
  18. XIII. A Fall before a Rise
  19. XIV. The Building of my “No. 6”
  20. XV. Winning the Deutsch Prize
  21. XVI. A Glance Backward and Forward
  22. XVII. Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope
  23. XVIII. Flights in Mediterranean Winds
  24. XIX. Speed
  25. XX. An Accident and its Lessons
  26. XXI. The First of the World’s Air-Ship Stations
  27. XXII. My “No. 9,” the Little Runabout
  28. XXIII. The Air-Ship in War
  29. XXIV. Paris as a Centre of Air-Ship Experiments
  30. Concluding Fable