Interplanetary flight : an introduction to astronautics [Historical survey -- The earth's gravitational field -- The rocket -- The problem of escape by rocket -- The earth-moon journey -- Interplanetary flight -- The atomic rocket -- Spaceships and space stations -- Subsidiary problems -- Opening frontiers]

Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 ; illustrations, Leslie Carr, 1891-1969; Frank Tinsley, 1899-1965

Edité par L. Harper & Brothers, New York, Printed in Great Britain, [ 1951], 1951

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[1st ed., 1st printing] viii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm OCLC 1649198 LCCN 51010746 ; light blue cloth with dark blue lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Historical survey -- The earth's gravitational field -- The rocket -- The problem of escape by rocket -- The earth-moon journey -- Interplanetary flight -- The atomic rocket -- Spaceships and space stations -- Subsidiary problems -- Opening frontiers ; Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics is a short, modestly technical introduction to space exploration written by Arthur C. Clarke, and published in 1950. ; This book by esteemed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, is a serious albeit slim reference to rockets, orbital mechanics, and space technology that is accessible to readers with limited understandings of basic calculus and physics (elementary mechanics). ; Robert Goddard commemorative US postage stamp franked in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 14, 1966 laid in ; ownership stamp on front endpaper of Edward William Girard (1930-2020), a Boeing engineer and Rockwell Missile Systems Division operational analysis manager that served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was instrumental in proposing national re-emphasis on maritime strategy in the wake of the Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 and earlier, in 1961, the use of war games to function as pseudo-experiments, producing data for analysis ; fantastic illustrations by Leslie Carr & Frank Tinsley, show spacecraft in orbit & construction crews at work on the moon in space-suits & pressurized tractor vehicles, "building the lunar base" ; Frank Tinsley (1899-1965) was a concept artist during the late 1940s & through much of the 1950s, working at Mechanix Illustrated magazine. He wrote & illustrated numerous articles about the future of technology, transportation, strategic military weapons & equipment, & space exploration. Tinsley worked as an artist's apprentice in the Research Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after graduating from high school. He joined the Design Section of the War Department during World War I & freelanced as an illustrator in the 1920s & 30s, for magazines as well as the movies. He met publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst, who was expanding into film at the time. The two became personal friends. In 1958, Tinsley was hired by the American arm of Germany's Bosch company to illustrate their futuristic space technologies. Tinsley died of a heart attack at age 65. ; Leslie Carr (1891-1969), born in Hove, West Sussex, emerged as a significant figure in British illustration & poster art during the first half of the 20th century. He produced some of his best work for Southampton Docks in the 1930s as commissions for the Southern Railway. He worked on advertisements for Morris Motors, London County Council Tramways, & post-war for British Railways. His output included work for the British Grand Prix in 1950, The Motor magazine, many children's books, as well as landscape and architectural themes & publicity for towns as diverse as Seaford in Sussex & Silloth on the Solway Firth most of the latter type again for the railways. He was an official war artist during WW2 & continued working in to the 1950s & was Art Director of The Motor in the 1960s. ; Arthur Clarke was an English futurist ; mathematics & calculus are shown to indicate the theory behind achieving orbital velocity, conversion of thermal & internal pressure of rockets into kinetic energy, the calculation of acceleration of rockets, the calculation of the duration of a journey from the neighborhood of the Earth to the Moon in two methods: if the initial velocity is just sufficient to reach the Moon, & a second set of calculations if a vessel is projected at more than escape velocity, calculation of fuel consumption in relation to exhaust velocity, computation of the temperature of a body in space, & the measurement of radio ranges in space ; a penciled wattage step-function on the back endpaper ; else FINE.

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• Titre: Interplanetary flight : an introduction to astronautics [Historical survey -- The earth's gravitational field -- The rocket -- The problem of escape by rocket -- The earth-moon journey -- Interplanetary flight -- The atomic rocket -- Spaceships and space stations -- Subsidiary problems -- Opening frontiers]
• Éditeur: L. Harper & Brothers, New York, Printed in Great Britain, [ 1951]
• Date de parution: 1951
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• Type de livre: Book