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The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784 : with a word on the importance of ballooning for the science of heat and the art of building railroads

Title
The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784 : with a word on the importance of ballooning for the science of heat and the art of building railroads / by Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Author
Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1983.

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Description
xi,210 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Subject
  • Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810
  • Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799
  • Aeronautics > History
  • Balloonists > France > Biography
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 178-197.
Call Number
JSF 13-289
ISBN
0691083215
LCCN
82061363
Author
Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
Title
The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784 : with a word on the importance of ballooning for the science of heat and the art of building railroads / by Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1983.
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 178-197.
Research Call Number
JSF 13-289
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