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The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings
| Title | The Airplane: How Ideas Gave Us Wings |
| Names | Spenser, Jay P. |
| Book Number | DB070113 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Former curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum chronicles the innovations that solved technical challenges from aviation's conception to the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Discusses airplane construction: fuselage, wings, controls, propulsion, and landing gear. Portrays pioneers Sir George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, Hugo Junkers, and others. 2008. |
| Local Subject | Technology - TEC |
| Engineering - Other branches of engineering - 629 | |
| Engineering & allied operations - 620 | |
| Adult Book - ADB | |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| Science - Aviation - AVI | |
| Short Book - SH | |
| Male Author - MA | |
| Science - SCI | |
| Male Narrator - MN | |
| Long Book - LO | |
| General Non-Fiction - GNF | |
| LC Subject | Aeronautics - Research - History |
| Airplanes - Design and construction - History |
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| Notes | ENG |
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| Call Number | 629.13334 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2008 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2008 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: New York : HarperCollins, c2008. 9780061259197 |