Name: wings of madness: alberto santos-dumont and the invention of flight (en Inglés)
SKU: 18879483
Price: 645.59 MXN
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Author: Hoffman, Paul
ISBN: 9780786866595

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wings of madness: alberto santos-dumont and the invention of flight (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Paul Hoffman

Editorial

Theia

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

369

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6x15.8x3.4 cm

Peso

0.70 kg.

ISBN

0786866594

ISBN13

9780786866595

Categorías

Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Biografía: ciencia, tecnología y medicina
Historia general y del mundo
Aeronáutica y aviación

wings of madness: alberto santos-dumont and the invention of flight (en Inglés)

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On the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the other man who was once hailed worldwide as the conqueror of the air--Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906. The dashing, impeccably dressed inventor entertained Paris with his airborne antics--barhopping in a little dirigible that he tied to lampposts, circling above crowds around the Eiffel Tower, and crashing into rooftops. A man celebrated, even pursued by the press in Paris, London, and New York, Santos-Dumont dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts. But beneath his lively public exterior, Santos-Dumont was a frenzied genius tortured by the weight of his own creation.Wings of Madness chronicles the science and history of early aviation and offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary and tormented man, vividly depicting the sights and sounds of turn-of-the-century Paris. It is a book that will do for aviation what The Man Who Loved Only Numbers did for mathematics.