书目名称 | The Flying Man |
副标题 | Otto Lilienthal—Hist |
编辑 | Markus Raffel,Bernd Lukasch |
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概述 | The remarkable story of the man Wilbur Wright called "the greatest of precursors”.Presents spectacular photographic documentation.Includes flight reports from replicas built and flown by one of the au |
丛书名称 | Springer Biographies |
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描述 | ."Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. His greatness appeared in every phase of the problem. No one equaled him in power to draw new recruits to the cause; no one equaled him in fullness and dearness of understanding of the principles of flight; no one did so much to convince the world of the advantages of curved wing surfaces; and no one did so much to transfer the problem of human flight to the open air where it belonged."..These words were spoken by Wilbur Wright, who successfully accomplished the first powered flight together with his brother Orville in 1903 on the sand dunes of the Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina. Wilbur was talking about the most important of their predecessors, Otto Lilienthal...Lilienthal attracted worldwide attention due to the spectacular photographs showing him in flight, made possible by technology that had only just been developed by him. This fortuitousunion between a pioneer of aviation and the pioneers of so-called “instantaneous photography” is responsible for the immense contemporary popularity of Lilienthal’s flights around the globe, the first ever free fli |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | Lilienthal; Aviation history; Pioneer of flight; Photographs of early flying machines; Monoplane; Biplane |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95033-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-95035-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-95033-0Series ISSN 2365-0613 Series E-ISSN 2365-0621 |
issn_series | 2365-0613 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |