Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War by Richard P. Hallion (Author)

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Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War by Richard P. Hallion (Author)ISBN: 9780195160352 Publisher : Oxford University Press, May 8, 2003 Hardcover, 531 pages 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 airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly

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