Santos dumont a lberto (3 resultados)

632, (1) pages. With a lot of illustrations. Illustrated original cloth binding. (Partially a little used). 24x17 cm * Alberto Santos Dumont (* 20. Juli 1873 auf der Fazenda Cabangu bei Palmira im brasilianischen Bundesstaat Minas Gerais; + 23. Juli 1932 in Guarujá/Bundesstaat São Paulo) war ein brasilianischer Luftschiffer, Motorflugpionier und Erfinder, der den Beginn der motorisierten Luftfahrt vor allem in seinem Schaffensland Frankreich mitprägte. Er führte nach mehreren Fahrten mit verschiedenen selbstgebauten Luftschiffen 1906 auch den ersten öffentlichen Motorflug der Welt mit einem Flugzeug durch. Häufig wird Santos Dumont als ,Vater der Luftfahrt" bezeichnet. Ihm zu Ehren heißt der lokale Flughafen von Rio de Janeiro Aeroporto Santos Dumont. (Quelle Wikipedia) pt Gewicht in Gramm: 1800.…

8vo. ix, [1], 356 pp. Title in red & black, photogravure portrait frontisp., with photo plates throughout. Pictorial blue-gray publisher's cloth, cover art illustration of airship, tower, and clouds by Decorative Designers, initials in lower right, white lettering front cover & spine (some edgewear, rubbing, minor soiling, and thumbing, ex-lib markings on endpapers & spine), still a G copy, from the Southern Pacific Railway Clubs car library. First American edition of this excellent and well-illustrated work on aviation by Santos-Dumont, who was a pioneering Brazilian aviator at the turn-of-the-19th- into the 20th-Century. The diminutive playboy and talented engineering machinist raced motorized tricycles, Locomobiles and began building his own dirigibles, and in 1901 piloted his Airship No. 6 sround the Eiffel Tower. In 1904, after publication of this work, he began experimenting heavier-than-air aircraft, building an unsuccessful helicopter in 1905, and in 1906 a biplane reminiscent of the Wright Flyer, dubbed a "canard" by the French, and in 1906 set the first aviation record in Europe. Brazilians like to claim he preceded the Wright Bros. because he made his first flights in front of huge public crowds, but aviation experts and historians demur. …

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1904 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 382 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 382 Language: English.…