The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America

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Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983 - 770 σελίδες

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Acknowledgments
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Flight and the Founding Fathers
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The New Born Babe Comes to America
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Tom D. Crouch is an aeronautics historian and curator. Crouch attended Ohio University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1966. He also attended Miami University and received a Master of Arts degree in history there in 1968. He later earned a Ph.D in history from the Ohio State University in 1976. In 2001 the Wright State University awarded him with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Crouch is the author books and many articles, primarily on topics related to the history of flight technology. Crouch was awarded a 1989 Christopher Award for his book The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. In 2005 he won the AIAA Gardner-Lasser Literature Prize for the book Wings: A History of Aviation From Kites to the Space Age.

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ΤίτλοςThe Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America
ΣυγγραφέαςTom D. Crouch
Έκδοσηεικονογραφημένη
ΕκδότηςSmithsonian Institution Press, 1983
Πρωτότυπο απότο Πανεπιστήμιο του Μίτσιγκαν
Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις14 Δεκ. 2007
ISBN087474346X, 9780874743463
Μέγεθος770 σελίδες
  
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