Cargando…
The great American jet pack : the quest for the ultimate individual lift device /
Inventors once promised us we'd all be flying with jet packs now, enabling us to zoom around effortlessly in the sky and getting us to work without traffic jams and trains. What happened to the jet pack? In The Great American Jet Pack, Steve Lehto gives us the definitive history of this and rel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Chicago :
Chicago Review Press,
2013.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000Ma 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | EBOOKCENTRAL_ocn846993493 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20240329122006.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr cn||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 111102s2013 ilu ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2012039337 | ||
| 040 | |a E7B |b eng |e pn |c E7B |d N$T |d YDXCP |d TEFOD |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d EBLCP |d VALIL |d DEBSZ |d TEFOD |d OCLCQ |d AU@ |d IDEBK |d CDX |d OCLCQ |d LOA |d LTP |d COCUF |d CNNOR |d MOR |d PIFAG |d ZCU |d MERUC |d OCLCQ |d U3W |d YDX |d STF |d WRM |d OCLCQ |d UOK |d NRAMU |d ICG |d INT |d VT2 |d OCLCQ |d WYU |d G3B |d TKN |d OCLCQ |d DKC |d OCLCQ |d UKAHL |d OCL |d OCLCQ |d SDF |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCL | ||
| 019 | |a 836403910 |a 850226864 |a 961669296 |a 962579055 |a 1019956387 |a 1055374601 |a 1065861955 |a 1081212009 |a 1228564323 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781613744314 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 1613744315 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 9781613744338 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 1613744331 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |z 9781613744307 | ||
| 020 | |z 1613744307 |q (hardback) | ||
| 024 | 8 | |a 9896774 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000051640851 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000053308703 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV044174391 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 397515278 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a NZ1 |b 15587983 | |
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)846993493 |z (OCoLC)836403910 |z (OCoLC)850226864 |z (OCoLC)961669296 |z (OCoLC)962579055 |z (OCoLC)1019956387 |z (OCoLC)1055374601 |z (OCoLC)1065861955 |z (OCoLC)1081212009 |z (OCoLC)1228564323 | ||
| 037 | |a AF7C6B88-8001-4751-BB18-DC982C8D1C3B |b OverDrive, Inc. |n http://www.overdrive.com | ||
| 043 | |a n-us--- | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a TL717.5 |b .S44 2013eb | |
| 072 | 7 | |a TEC |x 002000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 629.14 |2 23 |
| 049 | |a UAMI | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Lehto, Steve. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The great American jet pack : |b the quest for the ultimate individual lift device / |c Steve Lehto. |
| 260 | |a Chicago : |b Chicago Review Press, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (234 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Inventors once promised us we'd all be flying with jet packs now, enabling us to zoom around effortlessly in the sky and getting us to work without traffic jams and trains. What happened to the jet pack? In The Great American Jet Pack, Steve Lehto gives us the definitive history of this and related devices, explaining how the technology arose, how it works, and why we don't have them in our garages today. These individual lift devices, as they were blandly labeled by the government men who financed much of their development, answered man's desire to simply step outside and take flight. No r. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction -- |t Flying shoes and hovering platforms -- |t The Hiller and de Lackner flying platforms -- |t The age of man rockets -- |t The quest for the rocket belt -- |t Wendell F. Moore and the Bell rocket belt -- |t The rocket belt flies -- |t The Bell rocket men -- |t The Sud Ludion and the Pogo -- |t William P. Suitor: rocket man -- |t The jet flying belt -- |t The WASP -- |t The WASP get kinesthetic control: the WASP II -- |t The rocket belt returns -- |t The Pretty Bird saga -- |t Civilian rocket belts -- |t The modern rocket belt in the public eye -- |t Ducted fan lift devices -- |t Hal Graham -- |t Jetlev -- |t Jetman: Yves Rossy -- |t When will we have jet packs? -- |t Epilogue: where are they today? |
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central Academic Complete | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Personal propulsion units |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Aeronautical engineers |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Ingénieurs en aéronautique |z États-Unis |v Biographies. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |x Aeronautics & Astronautics. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Aeronautical engineers |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Personal propulsion units |2 fast | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States |2 fast |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Biographies |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History |2 fast | |
| 758 | |i has work: |a The great American jet pack (Text) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFM7dGhc6h7bCPCKGw7F4y |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Lehto, Steve. |t Great American Jet Pack : The Quest for the Ultimate Individual Lift Device. |d Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2013 |z 9781613744307 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://ebookcentral.uam.elogim.com/lib/uam-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1162760 |z Texto completo |
| 938 | |a Askews and Holts Library Services |b ASKH |n AH25098334 | ||
| 938 | |a Askews and Holts Library Services |b ASKH |n AH25098333 | ||
| 938 | |a Coutts Information Services |b COUT |n 26450425 | ||
| 938 | |a EBL - Ebook Library |b EBLB |n EBL1162760 | ||
| 938 | |a ebrary |b EBRY |n ebr10685215 | ||
| 938 | |a EBSCOhost |b EBSC |n 562613 | ||
| 938 | |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection |b IDEB |n cis26450425 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 10407825 | ||
| 994 | |a 92 |b IZTAP | ||