A History of Aeronautics
1921
Vivian and Marsh's 1921 history of flight from the balloon experiments of the Montgolfiers to the aircraft of the First World War: the glider pioneers, the Wrights, the race across the Channel, airships, and a technical survey of aero engines. Written when powered flight was not yet twenty years old.
- Foreword
- Part I The Evolution of the Aeroplane
- The Period of Legend
- Early Experiments
- Sir George Cayley—Thomas Walker
- The Middle Nineteenth Century
- Wenham, Le Bris, and Some Others
- The Age of the Giants
- Lilienthal and Pilcher
- American Gliding Experiments
- Not Proven
- Samuel Pierpoint Langley
- The Wright Brothers
- The First Years of Conquest
- First Fliers in England
- Rheims, and After
- The Channel Crossing
- London to Manchester
- A Summary, to 1911
- A Summary, to 1914
- The War Period—I
- The War Period—Ii
- Reconstruction
- 1919-20
- Part II 1903-1920: Progress in Design
- Part III Aerostatics
- Part IV Engine Development