Motor Vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
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The Aeroplane Boys Series, no. 7When Scout Meets Scout; or, The Aeroplane SpyWhen Arthur Trevor caught the flying machine fever and organized the Young Aviators, neither he nor the other boys who joined the club meant to do anything but make toy aeroplanes. There was certainly no reason for...
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The Modern Bicycle and Its AccessoriesThe Modern Bicycle and Its AccessoriesTo the Cyclist who appreciates the advantage of understanding his wheel, its mechanism and its construction, for the same reason and because of the same interest felt by a horseman in his roadster, an engineer in his locomotive, or...
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Bill Bolton and the Winged CartwheelsBill Bolton and the Winged CartwheelsYou and I, Bill, said Osceola, are on top of the world and throwing rocks at rainbows! The young Seminole chief, stooping quickly, picked something out of the short grass at the side of the Bolton driveway. A couple...
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The Aeroplane Boys Series, no. 6Battling the Bighorn; or, The Aeroplane in the RockiesBut what good does that do? exclaimed the one addressed as Frank. It was dark when we came about and we didnt know our course then. By dead reckonin Id say we ought to head more...
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A History of AeronauticsA History of AeronauticsAlthough successful heavier-than-air flight is less than two decades old, and successful dirigible propulsion antedates it by a very short period, the mass of experiment and accomplishment renders any one-volume history of the subject a matter of selection. In addition to...
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The Story of American AviationThe Story of American AviationIt is difficult to believe that, just a little over thirty years ago, I was a high-school student watching the pilots at the Wright Brothers exhibition of the worlds first flying machine. That machine weighed about eight hundred pounds. Its...
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The Aeroplane Boys Series, no. 5A Cruise in the Sky; or, The Legend of the Great Pink PearlAll afternoon the train had been following the picturesque shore of the Indian River, in Florida. The snow and ice of the north had long since disappeared. Summer heat increased as the...
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[U.S.] National Park Service. Historical handbook series, no. 34Wright Brothers National Memorial, North CarolinaThis publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. It is printed by the...
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The Aviator and the Weather BureauThe Aviator and the Weather BureauThis is a brief but general account of the history of aviation as it is associated with southern California, a description of the War Department school of aviation at San Diego, a syllabus of the course of lectures delivered...
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Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionRockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionThere is an obvious relationship between aeronautics and astronautics since the same principles of physics apply and many materials and techniques of construction are common. Nevertheless, in the decades following World War...
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Airplane Boys #3Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of CuzcoIn this third book about the Airplane Boys, they get a marvelous new plane, which they name the Lark and which takes them to new adventures and serves them to good purpose in many a narrow escape. Humph!...
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The Haunted HangarThe Haunted Hangar - Sky Scouts/Air Mystery series #3Neither sixteen-year-old Larry Turner nor Dick Summers, a year his junior, had any more fear than had Sandy Maclaren, hardly thirteen and seated just back of the pilot who, in flying the four-place, low-wing airplane, had...
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The Aeroplane Boys Series, no. 4The Boy Aeronauts' Club; or, Flying for FunThe lower end of Palafox Street in Pensacola, Florida, ends in a busy shipping and fish wharf. On each side of this are to be found, always, scores of sailing vessels and a jam of oyster and...
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Airplane Boys #5Airplane Boys at Platinum RiverI say, Buddy, my esophagus feels as if my pharynx is severed, Robert Caldwell remarked very soberly to his step-brother, Jim Caldwell, as the pair made their way among the gay crowd attending the Spanish-Peruvian fiesta near Cuzco. Is that...
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Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flyingAnimal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying - With a dissertation on aëronauticsThe locomotion of animals, as exemplified in walking, swimming, and flying, is a subject of permanent interest to all who seek to trace in the creature proofs of beneficence and design in...
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The Problem of ManflightThe Problem of ManflightAs the century draws to its close the interest in the subject of aeronautics steadily increases. There already exists a keen curiosity to know what the aerial machine of the future is likely to resemble, and also to know whether the...
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The Aeroplane Boys Series, no. 3The Aeroplane Express; or, The Boy Aeronaut's GritAs the conductor of the trolley made this announcement, the car came to a stop in a suburb of Newark, New Jersey. About two blocks beyond the end of the line, and almost on the edge of...
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The Mystery CrashThe Mystery Crash - Sky Scout Series, #1The mystery is: Why is an airplane hidden in the grove at the edge of a cornfield? Our mystery because we discovered it and because, ever since we helped father solve his detective cases and took an...
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How It Flies; or, The Conquest of the AirHow It Flies; or, The Conquest of the Air - The Story of Man's Endeavors to Fly and of the Inventions by Which He Has SucceededIn these pages, by means of simple language and suitable pictures, the author has told the story of the...
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The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic FlightThe Brighton Boys in Transatlantic FlightThe speaker was Jack CarewBig Jack Carew, they had called him at Brighton. The descriptive prefix had clung to him throughout all the changes and vicissitudes of the Great War, and the indications were now that he would continue...
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