The Airship Inventor's Library: 33 Essential Reads
Pioneering Flight Memoirs, Airship Engineering, and Edwardian Adventures of the Aerial AgeBy Harry Vissering, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Thomas Herbert Russell, William J. Jackman, Octave Chanute, E. Douglas Fawcett, George Whale, Percy F. Westerman, F. S. Brereton, Howard Roger Garis, H. L. Sayler, Edwin Green, John Henry Goldfrap, Hugh McAlister, De Lysle F. Cass, G. Harvey Ralphson, Clarence Young, Richard Bonner, Victor Appleton, Roy Rockwood, Frank V. Webster, Frank Cobb, Stanley R. Matthews
Length175h 55m
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The Airship Inventor's Library: 33 Essential Reads gathers aviation writing from the age when dirigibles, balloons, and heavier-than-air machines transformed both engineering imagination and popular narrative. Across technical reflection, speculative adventure, instructional prose, and juvenile fiction, the volume charts the airship as a vehicle of invention, imperial mobility, peril, and wonder. Its range is especially revealing: practical discussions of aerial design and navigation stand beside tales of daring expeditions and airborne crises, allowing readers to encounter the period's aspirations and anxieties in multiple registers. The contributors include inventors, aviation advocates, journalists, engineers, and prolific writers of popular adventure. Their combined work belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture of technological modernity, when flight promised to reorder geography, warfare, commerce, and childhood fantasy alike. Technical authority and imaginative extrapolation continually intersect here, illuminating how public knowledge of aviation was shaped not only by experiments and reports but also by serialized storytelling and accessible educational literature. This anthology is recommended for students of aviation history, science fiction, children's literature, and print culture, as well as general readers drawn to early flight. By placing diverse styles and perspectives in conversation, it offers an unusually rich account of how the airship became both a practical problem and a durable cultural symbol.
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GenreOther, Science Fiction
Length175 hrs 55 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Airships; The Story of My Life
2My Airships; The Story of My Life
3MY AIRSHIPS
4CHAPTER III MY FIRST BALLOON ASCENT
5CHAPTER VII MY FIRST AIR-SHIP CRUISES (1898)
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6CHAPTER XII THE DEUTSCH PRIZE AND ITS PROBLEMS
7CHAPTER XVI A GLANCE BACKWARD AND FORWARD
8CHAPTER XX AN ACCIDENT AND ITS LESSONS
9CONCLUDING FABLE MORE REASONING OF CHILDREN
10Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
11Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
12FLYING MACHINES: CONSTRUCTION and OPERATION
13CHAPTER VI. LEARNING TO FLY.
14CHAPTER X. PROPER DIMENSIONS OF MACHINES.
15CHAPTER XV. THE ELEMENT OF DANGER.
16CHAPTER XX. SOARING FLIGHT.
17CHAPTER XXIV. HINTS ON PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION.
18CHAPTER XXVIII. GLOSSARY OF AERONAUTICAL TERMS.
19The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship
20CHAPTER I. READY FOR THE TEST.
21CHAPTER II. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS.
22CHAPTER III. AN AERIAL STOWAWAY.
23CHAPTER IV. INTO THE THICK OF IT.
24CHAPTER V. MUTINY.
25CHAPTER VI. A STORM AT SEA.
26CHAPTER VII. THE BOYS FIND NEW JOBS.
27CHAPTER VIII. “THIS IS THE FINISH.”
28CHAPTER IX. ASHORE.
29CHAPTER X. THE CASTAWAYS.
30CHAPTER XI. ABOARD THE WRECK.
31CHAPTER XII. IN DIRE PERIL.
32CHAPTER XIII. ATTACKED BY A WHALE.
33CHAPTER XIV.
34CHAPTER XV. THE PROFESSOR IN TROUBLE.
35CHAPTER XVI. THE CAMP IN THE FOREST.
36CHAPTER XVII. THE GIANT SLOTH.
37CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE JUNGLE.
38CHAPTER XIX. INDIANS OF THE AMAZON.
39CHAPTER XX. AN “EEL-ECTRIC” DISCOVERY.
40CHAPTER XXI. THE MARCHING ANTS.
41CHAPTER XXII. “UP A TREE.”
42CHAPTER XXIII. THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CAPTAIN.
43CHAPTER XXIV. THE LION’S MOUTH.
44CHAPTER XXV. THE TRIBE OF CHEKLA.
45CHAPTER XXVI. DIAMONDS VS. FREEDOM.
46CHAPTER XXVII. THE PROFESSOR TRIUMPHS.
47Motor Matt's Air Ship; or, The Rival Inventors
48CHAPTER I.
49CHAPTER VI.
50CHAPTER XII.
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