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 Gillispie, Charles Coulston

€32 · Offered by MW Books

1983, First Edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 232 pages : illustrations (some colour). Subjects: Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel 1740-1810. Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne 1745-1799. Genre: History.....

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