Cargando…
Dirigible Dreams : The Age of the Airship /
Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captiv...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lebanon, NH :
ForeEdge,
2014.
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_35375 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905043724.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 140417s2014 nhu o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781611686975 | ||
| 020 | |z 9781611685602 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)893336527 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Hiam, C. Michael. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Dirigible Dreams : |b The Age of the Airship / |c C. Michael Hiam. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Lebanon, NH : |b ForeEdge, |c 2014. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2014 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2014. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (263 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page [1]; Title Page [2]; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| 520 | |a Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated the imaginations of people worldwide, but in less than fifty years dirigible became a byword for doomed futurism, an Icarian figure of industrial hubris. Dirigible Dreams looks back on this bygone era, when the future of exploration, commercial travel, and warfare largely involved the prospect of wingless flight. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Flugzeug |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Airships. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00803860 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TRANSPORTATION |x Ships & Shipbuilding |x Pictorial. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Airships |x History. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/35375/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2014 History | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2014 Complete | ||