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
Length176h 1m
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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
Length176 hrs 1 min
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Airships; The Story of My Life
2MY AIRSHIPS
3CHAPTER III MY FIRST BALLOON ASCENT
4CHAPTER VII MY FIRST AIR-SHIP CRUISES (1898)
5CHAPTER XII THE DEUTSCH PRIZE AND ITS PROBLEMS
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6CHAPTER XVI A GLANCE BACKWARD AND FORWARD
7CHAPTER XX AN ACCIDENT AND ITS LESSONS
8CONCLUDING FABLE MORE REASONING OF CHILDREN
9Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
10FLYING MACHINES: CONSTRUCTION and OPERATION
11CHAPTER VI. LEARNING TO FLY.
12CHAPTER X. PROPER DIMENSIONS OF MACHINES.
13CHAPTER XV. THE ELEMENT OF DANGER.
14CHAPTER XX. SOARING FLIGHT.
15CHAPTER XXIV. HINTS ON PROPELLER CONSTRUCTION.
16CHAPTER XXVIII. GLOSSARY OF AERONAUTICAL TERMS.
17The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship
18CHAPTER I. READY FOR THE TEST.
19CHAPTER II. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS.
20CHAPTER III. AN AERIAL STOWAWAY.
21CHAPTER IV. INTO THE THICK OF IT.
22CHAPTER V. MUTINY.
23CHAPTER VI. A STORM AT SEA.
24CHAPTER VII. THE BOYS FIND NEW JOBS.
25CHAPTER VIII. “THIS IS THE FINISH.”
26CHAPTER IX. ASHORE.
27CHAPTER X. THE CASTAWAYS.
28CHAPTER XI. ABOARD THE WRECK.
29CHAPTER XII. IN DIRE PERIL.
30CHAPTER XIII. ATTACKED BY A WHALE.
31CHAPTER XIV.
32CHAPTER XV. THE PROFESSOR IN TROUBLE.
33CHAPTER XVI. THE CAMP IN THE FOREST.
34CHAPTER XVII. THE GIANT SLOTH.
35CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE JUNGLE.
36CHAPTER XIX. INDIANS OF THE AMAZON.
37CHAPTER XX. AN “EEL-ECTRIC” DISCOVERY.
38CHAPTER XXI. THE MARCHING ANTS.
39CHAPTER XXII. “UP A TREE.”
40CHAPTER XXIII. THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CAPTAIN.
41CHAPTER XXIV. THE LION’S MOUTH.
42CHAPTER XXV. THE TRIBE OF CHEKLA.
43CHAPTER XXVI. DIAMONDS VS. FREEDOM.
44CHAPTER XXVII. THE PROFESSOR TRIUMPHS.
45Motor Matt's Air Ship; or, The Rival Inventors
46CHAPTER I.
47CHAPTER VI.
48CHAPTER XII.
49LATEST ISSUES
50Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship
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