Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century

Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century

Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century was written by P. Galison, and A. Roland. The 383 page book was published by Springer Science & Business Media in 2013 with an ISBN 10 of 940114379x. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century mentions 1 serial killers including Leslie Irvin. The author P. Galison has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

All technologies differ from one another. They are as varied as humanity's interaction with the physical world. Even people attempting to do the same thing produce multiple technologies. For example, John H. White discovered more than l 1000 patents in the 19th century for locomotive smokestacks. Yet all technologies are processes by which humans seek to control their physical environment and bend nature to their purposes. All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century phenomenon. But they approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives. They ask disparate questions. And they work from distinct agendas. Collectiv...