Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War by Richard P. Hallion

Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War

Richard P. Hallion

560 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction inspiring slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...