The mastery of the air
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Chapters (54)(click to expand)
- THE MASTERY OF THE AIR
- PREFACE
- THE MASTERY OF THE AIR
- PART I. BALLOONS AND AIR-SHIPS
- CHAPTER I. Man's Duel with Nature
- CHAPTER II. The French Paper-maker who Invented the Balloon
- CHAPTER III. The First Man to Ascend in a Balloon
- CHAPTER IV. The First Balloon Ascent in England
- CHAPTER V. The Father of British Aeronauts
- CHAPTER VI. The Parachute
- CHAPTER VII. Some British Inventors of Air-ships
- CHAPTER VIII. The First Attempts to Steer a Balloon
- CHAPTER IX. The Strange Career of Count Zeppelin
- CHAPTER X. A Zeppelin Air-ship and its Construction
- CHAPTER XI. The Semi-rigid Air-ship
- CHAPTER XII. A Non-rigid Balloon
- CHAPTER XIII. The Zeppelin and Gotha Raids
- PART II. AEROPLANES AND AIRMEN
- CHAPTER XIV. Early Attempts in Aviation
- CHAPTER XV. A Pioneer in Aviation
- CHAPTER XVI. The "Human Birds"
- CHAPTER XVII. The Aeroplane and the Bird
- CHAPTER XVIII. A Great British Inventor of Aeroplanes
- CHAPTER XIX. The Wright Brothers and their Secret Experiments
- CHAPTER XX. The Internal-combustion Engine
- CHAPTER XXI. The Internal-combustion Engine(Cont.)
- CHAPTER XXII. The Aeroplane Engine
- CHAPTER XXIII. A Famous British Inventor of Aviation Engines
- CHAPTER XXIV. The Wright Biplane (Camber of Planes)
- CHAPTER XXV. The Wright Biplane (Cont.)
- CHAPTER XXVI. How the Wrights launched their Biplane
- CHAPTER XXVII. The First Man to Fly in Europe
- CHAPTER XXVIII. M. Bleriot and the Monoplane
- CHAPTER XXIX. Henri Farman and the Voisin Biplane
- CHAPTER XXX. A Famous British Inventor
- CHAPTER XXXI. The Romance of a Cowboy Aeronaut
- CHAPTER XXXII. Three Historic Flights
- CHAPTER XXXIII. Three Historic Flights (Cont.)
- CHAPTER XXXIV. The Hydroplane and Air-boat
- CHAPTER XXXV. A Famous British Inventor of the Water-plane
- CHAPTER XXXVI. Sea-planes for Warfare
- CHAPTER XXXVII. The First Man to Fly in Britain
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service
- CHAPTER XXXIX. Aeroplanes in the Great War
- CHAPTER XL. The Atmosphere and the Barometer
- CHAPTER XLI. How an Airman Knows what Height he Reaches
- CHAPTER XLII. How an Airman finds his Way
- CHAPTER XLIII. The First Airman to Fly Upside Down
- CHAPTER XLIV. The First Englishman to Fly Upside Down
- CHAPTER XLV. Accidents and their Cause
- CHAPTER XLVI. Accidents and their Cause (Cont.)
- CHAPTER XLVII. Accidents and their Cause (Cont.)
- CHAPTER XLVIII. Some Technical Terms used by Aviators
- CHAPTER XLIX. The Future in the Air
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