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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN-100295978112
ISBN-139780295978116
eBay Product ID (ePID)575008
Product Key Features
Number of Pages380 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGenesis of Flight : the Aeronautical History Collection of Colonel Richard Gimbel.
SubjectMilitary / United States, Military / Aviation, Library & Information Science / Cataloging & Classification, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorU. S. A. F. Academy Staff, Richard Gimbel, Tom D. Crouch
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight64.1 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN99-010107
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal016.62913
SynopsisThe Genesis of Flight illustrates one of the most prestigious aeronautical history collections in existence, covering the history of man's dream of flight from antiquity to the advent of powered flight at the beginning of the 20th century. The items included are drawn from more than 20,000 objects that vividly reflect both humanity's vision and its fulfillment. Five-thousand-year-old seals carved from semiprecious stones and used to inscribe clay tablets record the earliest conception of flight. Among the collection's thousands of books are priceless volumes printed before 1501. Many, such as Robert Hooke's Philosophical Collections (1682), are serious, scientific studies of the possibility of flight. Others are about imaginary voyages into space and to other worlds, including Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1547), Cyrano de Bergerac's account of a voyage to the moon first published in 1650, and, of course, the 19th-century classics of Jules Verne. More than 2,000 prints, portraits, engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs comprise a unique and arresting pictorial history of aeronautics. Important letters written by pioneers of flight--Montgolfier, Blanchard, Lunardi, Lilienthal, Count von Zeppelin, Santos-Dumont, Langley, and the Wright brothers--are to be found among the collection's manuscript holdings. There are also rare commemorative medallions, sheet music, posters, dime novels, postcards and postage stamps, early flight manuals, catalogues of aircraft equipment, match boxes, and children's games and toys--all recording, in one way or another, humanity's aspirations to fly.The collection was assembled by Richard Gimbel (1898-1970), who began collecting while serving with the 8th U.S. Army Air Force in England during World War II, and continued after becoming curator of aeronautical literature at Yale University. The collection was donated to the United States Air Force Academy upon his death.The contributors include Tom D. Crouch, National Air and Space Museum; Clive Hart, University of Essex, England; Paul Maravelas, University of Minnesota Libraries; Ellen Morris, University of Pennsylvania; Dominick A. Pisano, National Air and Space Museum; Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania; and Edward Rochette, American Numismatics Association.
LC Classification NumberZ5063.G53 2000
