History of Flight Coloring Book - Couverture souple

Smith, A. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486252442 ISBN 13 : 9780486252445

Editeur : Dover Children's, 2000

Synopsis

This exciting coloring book -- the first of its kind -- chronicles the amazing story of man-made flying machines. A. G. Smith's carefully rendered illustrations trace the history of aircraft, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's design for the wing-flapping ornithopter, continuing with eighteenth-century hot-air balloons and nineteenth-century dirigibles, and concluding with such twentieth-century heavier-than-air craft as helicopters, jet fighters, and the space shuttle.
Forty-seven precise line drawings include: the history-making Wright Brothers' Flyer (1903); the spunky World War II British Spitfire; the Messerschmitt ME 262 A, the first German jet (1945); the Bell X-1, the first manned aircraft to exceed the speed of sound (1947); and the Concorde Supersonic Transport, developed jointly by the French and the English (1969). An informative caption describes each craft -- its innovative design, functions, and military or historic role.
Educational as well as entertaining, this well-researched pictorial display is sure to please colorists of all ages as certainly as it will thrill anyone fascinated with man's conquest of the air.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Children's
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0486252442
• ISBN 13: 9780486252445
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Dover; info@galileo-mc.de; ; Dachauer Str. 5-7; F�rstenfeldbruck; 82256; Allemagne