Special collection MC-19
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Contains 231 Results:
Jet Aircraft Simplified (1954 Edition), 1954 edition
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 159, Call No.: TL 709 .C5 1954
Identifier: 20121104
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training & Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope:From dust-jacket blurb: "JET AIRCRAFT SIMPLIFIED explains in a fascinating, step-by-step manner the basic principles and practical applications of the jet propulsion of aircraft. Among the many subjects discussed and illustrated with both line drawings and photographs are the discovery of jet propulsion, simple examples of...
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Publication: 1954 edition
Die Junkers-Lehrschau: eine Führung durch die Lehrschau der Junkers Flugzeug- und -Motorenwerke A.-G, Dessau (30 Jahre Junkers-Flugzeugforschung, 1910-1940) [The Junkers Show: A Guided Tour of the Junkers Aircraft and Engine Plant, Dessau (30 Years of Junkers Aircraft Research, 1910-1940)] (Second Edition), 1939
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 193, Call No.: TL 503 .J859 1939
Identifier: 20191010
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Informational).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Manufacturer.NB: The book is written in German. The primary in-house company writer was A. Dresel with graphic design by B. Schütte.Scope: This book, written and published by staff of the Junkers Company, captures the history of the company, and particularly the Junkers Aircraft and Engine manufacturing plant at Dessau, Germany, from 1910 to late 1939. It is a...
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Publication: 1939
There's Something In The Air [Second Printing], 1943, 1943-06
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 204, Call No.: D 786 .B3 1943
Identifier: 20061124
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Informational).
Purpose: Informational.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: This memoir, writtien by Flying Officer H. E. Bates of the Royal Air Force, relates his experiences flying during World War II. He originally wrote this book under the pseudonym "Flying Officer X," likely so it couldn't be used against him if he was shot down and captured.
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Dates:
Copyright: 1943; Publication: 1943-06
Memories and Machines: The Pattern of My Life, 1968, 1990
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 206, Call No.: TJ 140 .R53 A3 1990
Identifier: 20123044
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Foreword): "This book recounts the episodes that the author considers most significant both as regards his own full life and the technical developments which he has seen and influenced. It is of interest that the year of his birth (1885) was also the birth of the first real motor cars, for in that year both Daimler and Benz in...
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Publication: 1968; Issued: 1990
Baughman's Aviation Dictionary and Reference Guide: Aero-Thesaurus (1st Edition, 4th Printing), 1940, 1940
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 220, Call No.: TL 509 .B35 1940
Identifier: 20061178
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Technical Reference).
Purpose: Informational.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: TBD
Contents: TBD
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Copyright: 1940; Publication: 1940
The Illustrated Aviation Encyclopedia, 1944, 1944-02
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 221, Call No.: TL 509 .A85
Identifier: 20061105
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Technical Reference).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Introduction): "Today, when around the world the history of freedom and its preservation is being written by wings, it is important for the informed layman, as well as the growing thousands directly concerned with aviation, to become familiar with the new language of the air. For the duration of the war, such terms as bomb bay, range,...
Dates:
Copyright: 1944; Publication: 1944-02
Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space, 1915-1960, 1961
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 222, Call No.: TL 521 .A54283
Identifier: 20061137
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (From the Preface): "This volume is largely a response to repeated requests for basic historical information. It is intended to serve as a ready informational reference, one from whence more detailed historical analysis should proceed.The scope of this chronology is defined in accordance with the following criteria:•...
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Publication: 1961
Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1980 (2nd Edition) [The NASA History Series: NASA Special Publication 4403], 1981
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 223, Call No.: TL 521.312 .B56 1980
Identifier: 20062089
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Document Number: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Special Publication #4406.Series: The NASA History SeriesScope: This is the second edition of Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA. It is based on a monograph written by Eugene M. Emme and published in 1965 as ...
Dates:
Publication: 1981
Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 (3rd Edition) [The NASA History Series: NASA Special Publication 4406], 1989-07-01
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 224, Call No.: TL 521.312 .B56 1989
Identifier: 20170600
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Document Number: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Special Publication #4406.Series: The NASA History SeriesScope: This is the third edition of Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990. It is based on a monograph written by Eugene M. Emme and published in 1965 as ...
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Publication: 1989-07-01
On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet, 1958-1976 [The NASA History Series: NASA Special Publication 4212], 1984
Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 225, Call No.: TL 789.8 .U6 V524 1984
Identifier: 20061136
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Document Number: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Special Publication #4212.Series: The NASA History SeriesScope (from the Foreword): "It is difficult for me to believe that there is already a written history of the Viking program. After all, the Vikings landed on Mars in 1976, just a few years ago. The...
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Publication: 1984