History of Flight Coloring Book - Brossura

Smith, A. G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486252442 ISBN 13: 9780486252445

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1987

Riassunto

This exciting coloring book — the first of its kind — chronicles the amazing story of man-made flying machines. A. G. Smith’s carefully rendered illustrations trace the history of aircraft, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci’s design for the wing-flapping ornithopter, continuing with eighteenth-century hot-air balloons and nineteenth-century dirigibles, and concluding with such twentieth-century heavier-than-air craft as helicopters, jet fighters, and the space shuttle.
Forty-seven precise line drawings include: the history-making Wright Brothers’ Flyer (1903); the spunky World War II British Spitfire; the Messerschmitt ME 262 A, the first German jet (1945); the Bell X-1, the first manned aircraft to exceed the speed of sound (1947); and the Concorde Supersonic Transport, developed jointly by the French and the English (1969). An informative caption describes each craft — its innovative design, functions, and military or historic role.
Educational as well as entertaining, this well-researched pictorial display is sure to please colorists of all ages as certainly as it will thrill anyone fascinated with man’s conquest of the air.

Su questo libro

Product Description:

Includes accurate line drawings of 18th-century balloons, 19th-century dirigibles, the Wright Flyer, the first English Channel crossing, the Spirit of St. Louis, many fighters, bombers, and rockets from World Wars I and II, jets, early space vehicles, the Concorde, and, of course, the Space Shuttle. 47 black-and-white illustrations.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0486252442
• ISBN 13: 9780486252445
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 48