Frank Whittle: The Invention of the Jet - Couverture souple

Nahum, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178578241X ISBN 13 : 9781785782411

Editeur : Icon Books, 2017

Synopsis

The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world.

Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised.

Yet Whittle's brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light to build a jet engine at a time when to do so made little sense. Here is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve - and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Nahum is Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum, London, and works with the RCA's Vehicle Design programme as Research Supervisor. He has written extensively on the history of technology, aviation and transport for both scholarly and popular journals. His books include a study of Alec Issigonis the designer of the Mini and the Morris Minor cars in Issigonis and the Mini (Icon, 2005) and Flight (DK Publishing, 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Icon Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178578241X
• ISBN 13: 9781785782411
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible