Dirigible dreams : the age of the airship / C. Michael Hiam.

Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captiv...

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Main Author: Hiam, C. Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, 2014.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
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