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‎The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784 with a Word on the Importance of Ballooning for the Science of Heat and the Art of Building Railroads (Frères Montgolfier - Aérostation, ballons, montgolfières)‎

‎Princeton University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1983 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full green clothes, under editor's illustrated green dust-jacket, a nice (Liftoff at Versailles, 1783 and Pilatre d'Arlandes flight seen from Franklyn's terrace at Passy) In-4 1 vol. - 221 pages‎

‎numerous black and white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations on 8 plates out-of-text (complete) 1st edition, 1983 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, A Note on Units, xi, Text, 210 pages - 1. To fix the date - The paper industry - The inventors - The invention - Crisis at Vidalon - The first demonstration - 2. Arrival in Paris - The hydrogen competitor - The set before the King - Manned flight - The moment of hilarity - 3. Honors - The Flesselles - What next ? - 4. The Barnstormers - Aeronautical engineering - The first air crash - Commercial aviation - Revolutionary intermezzo - 5. An internal combustion engine - The hydraulic ram - Bridges and Railways - Sources and bibliography, Genealogical chart, Notes, list of illustrations, index - Charles Coulston Gillispie (6 août 1918 - 6 octobre 2015) est un historien des sciences américain, professeur émérite à l'université de Princeton. Son domaine principal de recherche a été l'histoire de la science en France à la fin du xviiie siècle et sous l'Empire.(source : Wikipedia) fine copy but the volume was plastified over the dust-jacket, else fine copy, no markings, D.J. is fine even if plastified, inside is fine and unmarked‎