Research Catalog
Boeing
- Title
- Boeing / John Fredrickson.
- Author
- Fredrickson, John
- Publication
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In 1916, an airplane company was established in the previous Heath shipyard along the Duwamish River, situated a short distance south of Seattle's Elliott Bay. Work on the first two airplanes was already well underway as the articles of incorporation for Pacific Aero Products Company established three Seattle residents as the principals, William E. Boeing, James Foley, and Edgar Gott. The companys diverse crew included men with woodworking skills, women with expertise in sewing fabric, and an American-educated Chinese aeronautical engineer named Wong Tsu. A century later, Boeing is synonymous with commercial aviation, military products, and feats in space.
- Series Statement
- Images of aviation
- Uniform Title
- Images of aviation
- Subject
- Boeing Company > History > Pictorial works
- Boeing Company
- Aircraft industry > Washington (State) > History > Pictorial works
- Aerospace industries > Washington (State) > History > Pictorial works
- Boeing airplanes > History > Pictorial works
- Aerospace industries
- Aircraft industry
- Boeing airplanes
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
- TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / Commercial
- TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History
- Washington (State)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- Pacific Aero Products Company -- Early years -- Great Depression -- World War II -- Cold War -- Jet age -- Last supper -- Welcome to Charleston.
- ISBN
- 9781467116992
- 1467116998
- LCCN
- 2016903346
- OCLC
- ocn944086846
- SCSB-9440159
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library