The Story of Flight: Early Flying Machines, Balloons, Blimps, Gliders, Warplanes, and Jets (Voyages of Discovery)
by Dan Hagedorn
Scholastic Voyages of Discovery
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An interactive book that uses stickers, fold-out pages, transparencies, and punch-outs to present the story of flight from the early designs of Leonardo da Vinci to futuristic plans for jet packs to be use in space exploration.Tags
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Well executed...makes good use of the various overlays and fold outs. Some fun details, apparently the Montgolfier brothers did not know what made their balloon rise, they thought that the stinkiness was something to do with it, so in order to fill their balloon they burnt really nasty stuff, rotten meat, dirty rags, and so forth. A dirigible took roughly the same amount of time to cross the Atlantic as an ocean liner.
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Dan Hagedorn is senior curator with the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 629.13 — Applied science & technology Engineering Transportation Vehicles Airplanes, Helicopters, and other aircrafts Aviation engineering
- LCC
- TL515 .V58 — Technology Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Aeronautics. Aeronautical engineering
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
