118 Rare Old Books on Airships Balloons and Early Flying Machines Vintage Aviation Zeppelins Dirigibles Wright Bros - Instant PDF Download

THE AIRSHIPS, BALLOONS & EARLY AEROPLANES COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 118 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of vintage airplanes and aviation.

Discover the world of airships, dirigible balloons and early airplanes. Read about the history of aviation and the pioneers of flight. Study the principles and theories behind various early modes of air transport. Explore the human conquest of the skies, from the earliest balloon flights to the aircraft of the early 1900’s. Also included in this astonishing collection are 60 rare issues of the magazine ‘Aircraft’ (1910 – 1915) providing a fascinating insight into flight during the early 20th century. Overall, a simply stunning collection of books covering all things to do with early aircraft, airships, balloons and aeronautics. The full list of titles speaks for itself!

This is a DIGITAL item! All of the books have been scanned in HQ and preserved forever in modern pdf format, easy to read on any laptop, computer, e-reader, tablet or even smartphone. You can also print any page you wish, or even books in their entirety. Most of the books are written in English with several additional texts in French and German.


Full List of Books Included:

14,000 miles through the air - R. M. Smith (1922)
A heat transfer model of a heated helium airship - R. M. Rapert
A history of aeronautics - E. C. Vivian (1921)
A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard - J. Jeffries (1786)
A study of static stability of airships - F. Rizzo (1924)
A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art - J. Wise (1850)
A trip round the world in a flying machine - J. Verne (1887)
Aërial locomotion, with a few notes of progress in the construction of an aërodome - A. G. Bell (1907)
Aerial navigation - A. de Bausset (1887)
Aërial navigation - a practical handbook on the construction of dirigible balloons, aërostats, aëroplanes, and aëromotors - F. Walker (1902)
Aeronautica; or, Sketches illustrative of the theory and practice of aerostation - M. Mason (1838)
Aeronautica; or, The history of aviation and aerostation...dating from the year 1557 to 1880 - J. Pearson & Co. (1900)
Aeronautical world Vol. 1 (Aug 1903 - July 1903)
Aëroplanes and dirigibles of war - F. Talbot (1915)
Aircraft design data Vol. 1 - United States. Navy Department (1919)
Aircraft design data Vol. 2 - United States. Navy Department (1919)
Aircraft in war and peace - W. A. Robson (1916)
Aircraft of all nations, a new series of photographs - H. Woodhouse (1917)
Airopaidia - containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785 - T. Baldwin (1786)
Airplanes, airships, aircraft engines - A. Tucker (1921)
Airships in peace & war - R. P. Hearne (1910)
Airships past and present - A. Hildebrandt (1908)
Airships Souvenir Booklet Summer 1936 - Navy Relief Society (1936)
Andrée's balloon expedition in search of the North pole - H. Lachambre (1898)
Astra castra - experiments and adventures in the atmosphere - C. H. Turnor (1865)
Aviation, its principles, its present and future - S. F. Walker (1913)
Ballooning - A Concise Sketch of Its History and Principles - G. May (1885)
Ballooning as a Sport - B. Baden-Powell (1907)
Balloons, airships and flying machines - G. Bacon (1905)
Benjamin Franklin and the first balloons - A. L. Rotch (1907)
British airships, past, present & future - G. Whale (1919)
By land and sky - J. M. Bacon (1907)
Commercial aviation in Germany past and future - W. Wronsky (1921)
Dans l'air - A. Santos-Dumont (1904)
De la navigation aérienne par les aérostats - A. Charvin (1864)
Der praktische luftschiffer - R. Von Dallwitz-Wegner (1909)
Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier (1783)
Dictionary of aviation - R. M. Pierce (1911)
D'Orcy's airship manual - an international register of airships with a compendium of the airship's elementary mechanics - L. D'Orcy (1917)
Fifty years of travel by land, water, and air - F. H. Butler (1920)
Flying machines construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship - W. J. Jackman (1910)
Flying machines past, present, and future. A popular account of flying machines, dirigible balloons and aeroplanes - A. W. Marshall (1914)
Flying machines practice and design. Their principles, construction and working - R. Kennedy (1909)
Flying machines to day - W. D. Ennis (1911)
Flying men & their machines - C. Winchester (1916)
Germany's fighting machine - her army, her navy, her air-ships - E. F. Henderson (1914)
Glossary of aviation terms. Termes d'aviation. English-French. Français-anglais - V. W. Page (1917)
Heroes of aviation - L. Driggs (1918)
Histoire de mes ascensions - récit de vingt-quatre voyages aériens (1868-1877) - G. Tissandier (1880)
Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres Vol. 1 - G. Tissandier (1887)
Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres Vol. 2 - G. Tissandier (1887)
Histoire des ballons et des locomotives aériennes depuis Dédale jusqu'à Petin - M. Bescherelle (1851)
Historie des ballons et des ascensions célèbres; avec une préface de Nadar dessins de A. Tissandier et des meilleurs artistes - A. Sircos (1876)
How it flies; or, The conquest of the air; the story of man's endeavors to fly and of the inventions by which he has succeeded - R. Ferris (1910)
Im reich der lüfte - A. Santos-Dumont (1905)
Instructions for making pilot balloon observations - United States Weather Bureau (1942)
Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793 - J. P. Blanchard (1918)
La conquête de l'air - L. Sazorac de Forge (1907)
La navigation aérienne - P. Hettinger (1910)
La navigation aérienne et les ballons dirigeables - R. Marquis (1888)
L'Aérophile Vol. 6 (Jan - Dec 1898)
L'Aérophile Vol. 7 (Jan - Dec 1899)
L'Aérophile Vol. 8 (Jan - Dec 1900)
L'Aérophile Vol. 9 (Jan - Dec 1901)
L'Aérophile Vol. 10 (Jan - Dec 1902)
L'Aérophile Vol. 13 (Jan - Dec 1905)
L'Aérophile Vol. 15 (Jan - Dec 1907)
L'Aérophile Vol. 16 (Jan - Dec 1908)
L'Aérophile Vol. 17 (Jan - Dec 1909)
L'Aérophile Vol. 18 (Jan - Dec 1910)
Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 - G. Tissandier (1878)
Les aérostats - L. Figuier (1887)
Les ballons dirigeables - expériences de m. Henri Giffard en 1852 et en 1855 et de m. Dupuy de Lôme en 1872 - G. Tissandier (1872)
Luftfahrzeugbau, konstruktion von luftschiffen und flugmaschinen - F. Huth (1909)
Military observation balloons - a complete treatise on their manufacture, equipment, inspection, and handling - E. J. Widmer (1917)
Motorballon und Flugmaschine - A. Von Parceval (1908)
Motoren fur Luftschiffe und Flugapparate - A. Vorreiter (1910)
My air-ships - A. Santos-dumont (1904)
My life and balloon experiences - H. T. Coxwell (1887)
Our Atlantic attempt - H. G. Hawker (1919)
Principle of the Boerner airship - Kapteyn (1905)
Procedure for determining speed and climbing performance of airships - F. Thompson (1936)
Role of technology in the failure of the rigid airship as an invention - P. Bradshaw (1975)
Scrapbook of early aeronautica Vol. 1 - W. Upcott (1783)
Scrapbook of early aeronautica Vol. 2 - W. Upcott (1783)
Sky high; the story of aviation - E. Hodgins (1929)
Spherical ballooning, some of the requirements - P. J. McCullough (1917)
The aerial age; a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea; the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation - W. Wellman (1911)
The Aerial ship - F. Lana-Terzi (1910)
The aero manual; a manual of mechanically-propelled human flight, covering the history of the work of early investigators, and of the pioneer work of the last century (1909)
The aeroplane - C. Grahame-White (1914)
The aviation pocket-book for 1918 - R. B. Matthews (1918)
The balloon. Noteworthy aerial voyages, from the discovery of the balloon to the present time - S. A. Kind (1879)
The boys' book of airships - H. Delacombe (1909)
The conquest of the air, aeronautics, aviation, history theory practice - A. Berget (1911)
The conquest of the air; or, The advent of aerial navigation - A. L. Rotch (1909)
The dominion of the air - J. M. Bacon (1903)
The early history of the airplane - O. Wright (1922)
The flight across the Atlantic - Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation (1919)
The new art of flying - W. Kaempffert (1911)
The prehistory of aviation - B. Laufer (1928)
The record of an aeronaut, being the life of John M. Bacon - G. Bacon (1907)
The romance of aeronautics, an interesting account of the growth & achievements of all kinds of aerial craft - C. C. Turner (1912)
The spider web, the romance of a flying-boat war flight - D. Hallam (1919)
Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation - E. S. Valentine (1902)
Travels in the air - J. Glaisher (1871)
Travels through space with Parseval! (1910)
Up in the clouds; or, Balloon voyages - R. M. Ballantyne (1870)
Vehicles of the air - a popular exposition of modern aeronautics with working drawings - V. Lougheed (1909)
Wonderful ballon ascents or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages - F. Marion (1870)
Zeppelin; the story of a great achievement - H. Vissering (1922)
Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins - R. P. Hearne (1916)
Zeppelins, the past and future - E. Campbell (1918)


An absolute must for anyone with an interest in airships, balloons, early flying machines and the history of flight – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!


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