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

Author(s)

• Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Bibliographic Information

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

Princeton University Press, c1983

Note

Bibliography: p. 178-179

Includes index

Details

• NCID: BA49181275
• ISBN:
  • 0691083215
• LCCN: 82061363
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Princeton, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 210 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TL617.M66
  • DC19 : 629.13/0092/2
  • DC19 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810
  • LCSH : Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799
  • LCSH : Aeronautics -- History
  • LCSH : Balloonists -- France -- Biography