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| Title |
Rebirth of European aviation 1902-1908: a study of the ,Wright brothers' influence |
| Personal
Name |
Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard |
| Pages |
387p., illus. |
| Notes |
61 refs. + list of newspapers and periodicals cited. |
| Publisher |
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) |
| Publication
Year |
1974 |
| Language |
English |
| Form
of Item |
monograph |
| City
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London |
| Country |
United Kingdom |
| Open
Term |
Airplanes and Flights |
| Series |
Publication of the Science Museum, London |
| Abstract |
Comprehensive and detailed narrative, frequently technical, history of the influence of the Wright brothers on the development of aviation in Europe, particularly in France. Begins with their successful test flights of their No. 3 glider in 1902 at Kitty Hawk and colcludes with Wilbur's public exhibitions of sustained controlled powered flight in France in 1908. Describes the anti-Wright attitudes in Europe, especially with extensive quotes from Gabriel Voisin (1880-1973), a French aviation pioneer who claimed that whatever the Wright brothers did, they got from France and that France got nothing from them. The author argues that aviation in Europe was in a "torpor" from 1903 to 1908, that the Europeans failed to take advantage of the Wright brothers' solutions to the problems of flight from 1903 to 1905, and that Wilbur's flights in France in 1908 inspired a rebirth of aviation in Europe. Includes numerous citations of primary sources, numerous original photographs and drawings, and an extensive index. |
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