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Flight Patterns

Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929

By: Roger E. Bilstein,Roger Bilstein

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Flight Patterns

Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929

By: Roger E. Bilstein,Roger Bilstein

From 1918 to 1929 American aviation progressed through the pioneering era, establishing the pattern of its impact on national security, commerce and industry, communication, travel, geography, and international relations. In America, as well as on a global basis, society experienced a dramatic transformation from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional one. By 1929 aviation was poised at the threshold of a new epoch. Covering both military and civil aviation trends, Roger Bilstein's study highlights these developments, explaining how the pattern of aviation activities in the 1920s is reflected through succeeding decades. At the same time, the author discusses the social, economic, and political ramifications of this robust new technology. Aviation histories usually pay little attention to aeronautical images as an aspect of popular culture. Thoughtful observers of the 1920s such as Stuart Chase and Heywood Broun considered aircraft to be an encouraging example of the new technology-workmanlike, efficient, and graceful, perhaps representing a new spirit of international good will. Flight Patterns is particularly useful for its discussion of both economic and cultural factors, treating them as integrated elements of the evolving air age.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820332143

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9780820332147

Stages to Saturn

A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

By: Roger E. Bilstein

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Stages to Saturn

A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

By: Roger E. Bilstein

A classic study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle that took Americans to the moon in the 1960s"--Back cover.

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540

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DIANE Publishing Inc.

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0160489091

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9780160489099

To Reach the High Frontier

A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles

By: Roger D. Launius

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To Reach the High Frontier

A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles

By: Roger D. Launius

Most towns did not have hospitals of their own before the mid-twentieth century, and Kentucky towns were no exception. KentuckyÕs first real hospital opened in 1823, but it was in LouisvilleÑtoo far away to serve many Kentucky communities, especially in cases of emergency. For this and other reasons, the lifespan of the average Kentuckian in the 1800s was only 40 years. Today it has grown to 75, and trained medical professionals are available to most communities throughout the state. Healing Kentucky tells how medical care changed in Kentucky over 200 years and became the much safer and better system we know today. It also describes early healing practices and methods used to care for the sick in the days before safe hospitals, even on Civil War battlefields. From cholera epidemics to polio and plastic surgery, readers will learn much about the people who shaped medicine in Kentucky.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813127211

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9780813127217

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

By: Roger E. Bilstein

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Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

By: Roger E. Bilstein

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics—forerunner of today's NASA—emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire. At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and foresight, given the importance of aviation to national military concerns), the committee oversaw the development of wind tunnels, metal fabrication, propeller design, and powerful new high-speed aircraft during the 1920s and '30s. In this richly illustrated account, acclaimed historian of aviation Roger E. Bilstein combines the story of NACA and NASA to provide a fresh look at the agencies, the problems they faced, and the hard work as well as inventive genius of the men and women who found the solutions. NACA research during World War II led to critical advances in U.S. fighter and bomber design and, Bilstein explains, contributed to engineering standards for helicopters. After 1945 the agency's test pilots experimented with jet-powered aircraft, testing both human and technical limits in trying to break the so-called "sound barrier." In October 1958, when the launch of the Soviet Sputnik signaled the beginning of the space race, NACA formed the nucleus of the new National Aeronautics and Space Agency. The new agency's efforts to meet President Kennedy's challenge—safely landing a man on the Moon and returning him to Earth before the end of the 1960s—is one of the great adventure stories of all time. Bilstein goes on to describe NASA's recent planetary and extraplanetary exploration, as well as its less well-known research into the future of aeronautical design.

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246

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JHU Press

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0801871581

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9780801871580

Reinventing NASA

Human Spaceflight, Bureaucracy, and Politics

By: Roger Handberg

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Reinventing NASA

Human Spaceflight, Bureaucracy, and Politics

By: Roger Handberg

From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different and better society on Earth, namely through human space flight. Pursuit of such a goal has led the agency to persist in certain activities even when they conflict with the wishes of Congress and the President. Recent changes in the international environment, changes that began well before September 11, 2001, have brought the military back into the field of human space flight, a situation that holds certain hazards for NASA since the military is more powerful politically. Dramatic changes could be in store, changes that could severely damage NASA's capacity for continuing what it sees as its primary objective. While most analyses see the agency as riddled with incompetence, Handberg argues that NASA's troubles are a product of its internal values. He begins with an historical overview of the major themes in NASA's history, followed by chapters on specific areas of concentration, such as the space station, space transportation, space science, and internal reforms. He also discusses the long-term future of the agency and human space flight in general, both domestically and internationally.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313016135

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9780313016134

Transportation and the American People

By: H. Roger Grant

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Transportation and the American People

By: H. Roger Grant

This “outstanding contribution to transportation history” chronicles the evolution of American mobility from stagecoaches to buses and airplanes (Choice). Transportation is the unsung hero of American history. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of everyday life. In Transportation and the American People, renowned historian H. Roger Grant tells the story of American transportation from its slow, uncomfortable, and often dangerous beginnings to the speed and comfort of travel today. Early advances like stagecoaches and canals allowed traders, businesses, and industries to expand across the nation, setting the stage for modern developments like transcontinental railways and busses that would forever reshape the continent. Grant provides a compelling and thoroughly researched narrative of the social history of travel, shining a light on the role transportation played in shaping the country as well as the people who helped build it.

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Indiana University Press

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0253043344

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9780253043344

Flight in America

From the Wrights to the Astronauts

By: Roger E. Bilstein

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Flight in America

From the Wrights to the Astronauts

By: Roger E. Bilstein

He offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.

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Resources for the Future

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0801866855

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9780801866852

Reconsidering Sputnik

Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

By: Roger D. Launius

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Reconsidering Sputnik

Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite

By: Roger D. Launius

This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe. An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A. McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century.

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Psychology Press

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9057026236

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9789057026232

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

By: Roger E. Bilstein

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An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA

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Stages to Saturn

A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

By: Roger E. Bilstein

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Stages to Saturn

A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

By: Roger E. Bilstein

A classic study of the moon rocket that launched the Apollo astronauts on their voyages of discovery."--Roger Launius, chief historian, National Air and Space Museum"This volume is just one of the many excellent histories produced by government and contract historians for the NASA History Office. . . . Roger Bilstein gracefully wends his way through a maze of technical documentation to reveal the important themes of this story. Rarely has such a nuts-and-bolts tale been so gracefully told."--Air University Review "Easily the best book of the NASA History Series. . . . Starting with the earliest rockets, Bilstein traces the development of the family of massive Saturn launch vehicles that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon and boosted Skylab into orbit."--Technology and Culture A classic study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle that took Americans to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, Stages to Saturn is one of the finest official histories ever produced. The Saturn rocket was developed as a means of accomplishing President John F. Kennedy's goal for the United States to reach the moon before the end of the decade. Without the Saturn V rocket, with its capability of sending as payload the Apollo Command and Lunar Modules--along with support equipment and three astronauts--more than a quarter of a million miles from earth, Kennedy's goal would have been unrealizable. Stages to Saturn not only tells the important story of the research and development of the Saturn rockets and the people who designed them but also recounts the stirring exploits of their operations, from orbital missions around earth testing Apollo equipment to their journeys to the moon and back. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the development of space flight in America and the course of modern technology, this reprint edition includes a new preface by the author providing a 21st-century perspective on the historic importance of the Saturn project. Roger E. Bilstein is professor emeritus of history at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. Regarded as one of the nation's premier aerospace historians, he is the author of six books, including Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts and Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA.

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0813026911

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Flight Patterns

Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929

By: Roger E. Bilstein,Roger Bilstein

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Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929

By: Roger E. Bilstein,Roger Bilstein

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Book's by Roger E. Bilstein

Flight Patterns

Flight Patterns

Stages to Saturn

Stages to Saturn

To Reach the High Frontier

To Reach the High Frontier

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

Reinventing NASA

Reinventing NASA

Transportation and the American People

Transportation and the American People

Flight in America

Flight in America

Reconsidering Sputnik

Reconsidering Sputnik

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

Stages to Saturn

Stages to Saturn

Flight Patterns

Flight Patterns

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