Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

200 S.; sehr zahlreiche Abbildungen; 8°. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Umschl. etwas berieben. - Englisch. // INHALT : Preface -- HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS -- BANNERS, WINDSOCKS, AND FLYING DRAGONS -- ROCKET BIRDS -- KITES -- MECHANICAL BIRDS -- WINGED MEN -- FLYING CHARIOTS, PARACHUTES, AND WINDMILLS -- LEONARDO -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES: -- A Summary Chronology -- Laying some Aeronautical Ghosts -- Original Documents -- Dunbars Poems about John Damian -- Bibliography. // Illustrationen : Daedalus and Icarus - Alexander and his flying basket - Alexander in flight - The three regions of the air - The apis indica - Men and grotesques with bat wings - The flight of a projectile - Standard probably a windsock - Fire-breathing windsock standard - The draco volans - Draco type A - Dracones type B - Dracones type C - between pages . and - Dracones type D - Dracones type E - Draco type F - Draco type G - The meteorological draco volans - Kircher's explanation of Archytas' dove - Fontana's rocket bird - Fontana's rocket bird transformed into a fire-carrying dove - Rocket dragon - Rocket dragon - Funicular rocket dragons - Greek vase, with decoration once thought to depict a kite - Snake kite from Cambodia - Pennon kite - Modern reconstruction of the pennon kite - Underrunning a kite - Icon, showing a pennon kite - Ceremonial entry of Charles V into Munich - First European illustration of a kite of diamond shape - Artificial singing birds - Design for a devil automaton - Tethered bird - Tethered insects and a tethered bird - The flight of Kaspar Mohr - Proto-parachute - Conical parachute - Veranzio's parachute - Earliest European illustration of a vertically shafted windmill - Earliest illustration of a horizontally shafted windmill - Horizontally shafted windmill - Horizontally shafted windmill - Windmill operated bells - Child's string-pull helicopter - Moulinet - Ornithopter with boat-shaped hull - Winch-operated wings for an ornithopter - Ornithopter powered by a bow-string motor - Ornithopter with moving wing tips - Mechanisms for flapping wings - Mechanisms for flapping wings, with a sketch of a dragon fly - Roasting spit turned by rising air / u.a.m.