ESNAULT PELTERIE, ROBERT (24 résultats)

Couverture souple. Etat : Bon. Edition originale. In-4° broché, 25 pages.

Etat : Très bon. Nos envois se font avec suivi, pour tout problème n'hésitez pas à nous contacter pour trouver une solution.

Tela. Etat : Bien. Encuadernado en tela, formato 4º. 248 p. 9 planchas desplegadas. con algunas anotaciones a lápiz rojo.

Softcover/Paperback. 132 S. Good condition. Ex library with stamps and back label. Cover slightly discoloured. Uncut edges. Pages clean. Enclosed: Adresse au lecteur by Esnault-Pelterie. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 245.

1949. Paris Union Syndicale des Industries Aéronautiques 1949 - Relié demi-percaline verte 28 cm x 37 5 cm 551 pages croquis photos plans dont plans hors-texte dépliants des aéroports du Bourget et de Marignane ? Avant-propos de André Granet préface de Raymond Saulnier textes de Robert-Esnault Pelterie Louis Bréguet Fernand Lioré André Brunet Paul Letourneur Robert Morane Joseph Roos etc - Bon état. Bon état.

Paris, Lahure, 1930. In 8 broché, 248 pp. et 9 grandes planches hors texte repliées (couverture défraîchie, mouillures). Edition originale. L?un des livres-clefs de ce pionnier de l?aviation et de l?aéronautique (1881-1957). [En français dans le texte, 362].

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No dj. First Edition. Author signed with compliments, dated Sept 1950. Text clean and tight, gray covers OK with sunfade around spine, spine strip intact. Author's printed letter to readers laid in. Text in English, many equations throughout. 112pp. Size: 8vo.

Couverture souple. Etat : Très bon. Patent/ Brevet sur un système utilisant lénergie des marées 5p, et deux planches dépliantes, Rare et précurseur, Photo sur demande.

Demi-basane Rouge. Etat : Satisfaisant. Format:16,5/25 AVEC 9 PLANCHES AUTRE EXEMPLAIRE, BROCHE, UNE ETIQUETTE DE LIBRAIRIE ET UN NUMERO, COUVERTURE DECOLOREE, DOS DE COUVERTURE AVEC PETIT MANQUE, REPARATION.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Bon. Reliure demi chagrin verte. Illustrations in texte en noir et blanc. 551 pp., 37,5 X 28 cm. Croquis, photos, plans dont plans hors-texte dépliants des aéroports du Bourget et de Marignane. Avant-propos de André Granet.

S.l., s.e., 1945 ; in-4, II ff. + 1 f.n.ch. + 128 ff., broché, couverture imprimée. Édition originale rare, probablement tirée à peu d'exemplaire, se présentant sous la forme de reproduction d'un texte dactylographié, imprimée sur le recto des feuillets. Une seconde édition, augmentée, paraîtra chez Gauthier-Villars & Rouge en 1946. Bon exemplaire, comportant un envoi autographe signé de Robert Esnault-Pelterie au chimiste Gabriel Bertrand. 1945.

Etat : Very Good. Paris, au siège de la société, Hotel des Sociétés Savantes, 1928. 8vo. VII,+ (1),+ 96 pp. Sewn as issued, in worn and torn printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. (L?Astronomie. Revue mensuelle d?astronomie, de mètéorologie et de physique du globe et bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France. 42e année. Supplément au Bulletin de Mars 1928.) Alicke, The Moon in Science & Fiction 113: ?one of the earliest and really serious papers on interplanetary travel and on the exploration of the upper atmosphere, by means of rocket.? Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (1959), p. 505. First edition, first issue. A second issue with a corrected sheet and a different cover was soon published due to a mistake in an equation on p. 56. This lecture and the publication of it are considered important milestones in fields of rocket science and space exploration. At the same conference, Esnault-Pelterie and his banker friend, André Louis Hirsch, announced an annual price (and medal) of 5000 francs to be awarded to a person who had made the most important contribution to the field. The first award went to Esnault-Pelterie?s German colleague Hermann Oberth and was a factor in giving him broader scientific respect. Softcover / Paperback.

Gr.-8°, 248 S.,unbeschnitten. Titelporträt, 9 mehrfach ausfaltbare Tabellen-Tafeln, Mit Signatur des Verfassers am Frontispiz, Decke mit Besitzeintrag in Tinte des ungarischen Physikochemikers und späteren Nobelpreisträgers George de Hevesy. Zustand 2, Ränder leicht bestoßen, Ecken etwas faltig. bedruckte Original-Broschur mit Deckel- und Rückentitel.

In-8, 25 cm, 96pp., illustr., figures et tableaux, Bwx-02 , Mouvement de la fusee dans le vide, proprietes a la limite de diverses formes de fusees, resistance de l'air, utilisations possibles des fusees, conditions necessaires pour le transport d'etres vivants, vehicules interplanetaires, conditions d'habitabilite du vehicule, dirigeabilite du vehicule .

et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires. Conférence faite à l'assemblée générale de la Société astronomique de France le 8 juin 1927. Paris, Société Astronomique de France, 1928, in-8, broché sous couverture rouge imprimée. VII pp., 96 pp. Tiré à part du supplément au bulletin de mars 1928 de la revue "L'Astronomie". Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) donne ici le premier calcul scientifique des possibilités d'envoi d'une fusée dans l'espace ; il prévoit la propulsion atomique: "Si nous arrivons à disposer de la totalité de l'énergie qui constitue la matière (?) à condition de savoir tirer l'énergie des transmutations atomiques (?) sans nous faire sauter, et avec nous le globe terrestre tout entier (?) Du train où vont les choses, on arrive à se demander si les hommes actuels n'assisteront pas aux premiers voyages sidéraux".

in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 248 pp., avec 9 grandes planches dépliantes hors texte, broché. Édition originale de cet ouvrage des plus importants, qui explicite et vulgarise les idées déjà développées dans L'Exploration par fusées de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires (1927). Dès lors, il anima à travers le monde des conférences sur le sujet très neuf des voyages spatiaux, comme celle de New York en 1931 en ouverture du film de Fritz Lang, La Fille de la Lune. Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) fut un ingénieur aéronautique remarquable, inventeur de l'aileron (1905) et du manche à balai (1906).

Etat : Very Good. Paris, Imprimerie A. Lahure, 1930. 8vo. Portrait,+ (2),+ 8,+ 248 pp.+ 9 folding tables and diagrams. Illustrated. Uncut in publisher?s printed wrappers, partly faded. Inscribed by the author on blank p. 6 and with his signature on the portrait. Together with:ESNAULT-PELTERIE, Robert. L?astronautique. Complément. Communication faite a la Société des Ingénieurs Civils de France le 25 Mai 1934. Illustrated. Paris, 19, Rue Blanche (9e), 1935. 8vo. 93,+ (blank),+ (8) pp.+ large folding diagram. Publisher?s printed wrappers, faded on spine and front cover. Alicke, The Moon in Science & Fiction 116: ?one of the classical early works in rocket literature.? Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (1959), p. 505. En français dans le texte 362: ?L?Astronautique va avoir un retentissement mondial et faire naître des émules. Son auteur devient alors un ardent propagateur de l?idée des voyages dans l?espace, et l?on peut dire aujourd?hui que l?astronautique moderne est issue des travaux théoriques de Oberth et d?Esnault-Pelterie, et des fusées que Goddard réalisera aux États-Unis.?First edition. Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) studied engineering at Sorbonne and soon began experimenting with gliders based on the designs of the Wright brothers. He eventually became a constructor and manufacturer of powered airplanes and aero engines, which led to his invention, among other things, of the ?joystick? flight control. Esnault-Pelterie also took an early interest in rocketry and space exploration and treated the rocket equation in a 1912 paper, apparently not knowing of earlier publications on the same subject by Tsiolkovsky and others. In ?L?astronautique? he summarizes his knowledge on the subject in what was probably the most comprensive treatise on the development of rockets and the theory of space travel which had been published up until 1930.The book starts with a short introduction to the progress of rocketry during the first decades of the 20th-century - Tsiolkovksy is mentioned among others - and in a ?Historique? the contributions of Goddard, Oberth and Hohmann are described. The first two chapters treat the movement of rockets through space and air, respectively, while the third and fourth chapters are devoted to the construction of rocket engines. In the fifth chapter, Esnault-Pelterie speculates on the possible uses of rockets on Earth which includes the exploration of the upper reaches of the atmosphere and high speed travel over longer distances. (In a table, he calculates the time it would take to travel by rocket from Paris to various cities around the globe, and states, for example, that the travel time to Tokyo would be only just over 32 minutes.) Interplanetary travel is the subject of the sixth chapter, which starts off with some calculations for a journey around the moon, and carries on with the design of spaceships, with sections covering steering, navigation and living conditions. In a calculation at the end of the chapter he imagines a spectacularly fast spaceship travelling at 885 km/s as being able to travel from Earth to Mars in only 49 hours and 20 minutes! The possibility of life on other planets is the subject of the seventh chapter, with captions such as ?Les planetes sont-elles peuplées d?êtres vivants?? and ?Qu?est-ce que la vie?? firing the reader?s imagination. The book ends with a chapter on ?Le prix REP-Hirsch?, a prize established by Esnault and the Parisian banker André-Louis Hirsch, and awarded by the Société astronomique de France for studies in interplanetary travel and astronautics between 1929 and 1939.As stated in the title, the ?Complément? is a lecture held at the Société des ingenieurs civils de France on May 25 1935, in which Esnault-Pelterie makes additions to each chapter of L?astronautique. Softcover / Paperback.

Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2 [3] 4 [5-6] 6a-6b: blank/errata] [7] 8 [9] 10-248 [249-250: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], 9 large folded plates, original orange wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition, second ("thin paper") issue. A copy of the "thin paper" or "trade" issue, preceded by the "author's" issue which is printed on wood pulp paper. "Esnault-Pelterie's greatest contribution . [It] covered virtually all that was then known of rocketry and space flight" (Von Braun and Ordway). Generally considered to be one of the four most important early works published on the subject, along with the early writings of Oberth, Hohmann and Goddard. Ciancone 66. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 5 and 6. Interlibrum 270 #115, 116, and 117. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, pp. 162, 505. Von Braun and Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space Travel, p. 75. A fine copy. Many of these books, as well as the author's research, were deliberately destroyed when the Germans marched into Paris in 1940. (#166666).

Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-6] [1] 2 [3] 4 [5-6] 6a-6b: blank/errata] [7] 8 [9] 10-248 [249-250: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks]; [1-3] 4-93 [94: blank] [95-102] [103-104: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], mimeographed folded errata leaf bound into COMPLÉMENT after title leaf, 9 large folded plates in the main volume, plus 1 large folded plate in the COMPLÉMENT, original orange wrappers printed in black. First edition, second ("thin paper") issue. A set of the "thin paper" or "trade" issue, preceded by the "author's" issue which is printed on wood pulp paper. "Esnault-Pelterie's greatest contribution . [It] covered virtually all that was then known of rocketry and space flight" (Von Braun and Ordway). Generally considered to be one of the four most important early works published on the subject, along with the early writings of Oberth, Hohmann and Goddard. Ciancone 66. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 5 and 6. Interlibrum 270 #115, 116, and 117. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, pp. 162, 505. Von Braun and Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space Travel, p. 75. A fine set. Many of these books, as well as the author's research, were deliberately destroyed when the Germans marched into Paris in 1940. (#142811).

Large octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-96, tables in the text, original reddish-brown wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. Printed as a supplement to the March 1928 issue of L'ASTRONOMIE. "Expounds original hypotheses of space flight that the author began to formulate in 1908 independently of the rocketry and astronautical ideas of pioneers Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskii, R. H. Goddard, and Herman Oberth. Calculates optimum rocket shapes, motion of a rocket in a vacuum, and safe acceleration speeds for manned flight. Presents the earliest known suggestions of atomic or nuclear rocket propulsion for planetary space missions, and considers the possibility of extraterrestrial life" (Pisano and Lewis). "One of the earliest and really serious papers on interplanetary travel and on the exploration of the upper atmosphere, by means of rockets. Esnault-Pelleterie"s study is independent of the slightly earlier treatise, in German, by Oberth, which he states he had not seen. The author devotes special attention to the problem of the escape velocity necessary to overcome the earth's gravitational pull, which he estimates at 10,000 meters per second. It was Esnault-Pelterie who coined the term Astronautics for the science of space flight. The present paper appeared as special supplement of the BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ ASTRONOMIQUE DE FRANCE, année 42, with a separate half-title and title-page" (Interlibrum). Ciancone 65. Interlibrum 270 #114. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 505. Norman 714. Pisano and Lewis 1197. Norman 714. Some wear to overlapping edges, front cover soiled, a very good copy. Rare. (#135444).

Paris, 1930 + 1928. Two 8vo-volumes. In a nice custommade leather-backed cloth-box with gilt lettering to front: "Space Travel/ Robert Esnault-Pelterie". L'astronautique: Uncut and unopened in original red printed wrappers (mounted with thick paper on inside of wrappers), spine restored, no loss of lettering. (4), 248, (2) pp. (in between pages 4 and 8, which are both numbered are actually 2 leaves, i.e. 4 pp. that are unnumbered"one is only printed on recto and one only on verso (errata) + 9 large folded plated. L'exploration de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires: Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers (L'Astronomie, Revue mensuelle d'astronomie.). A few closed tears to spine and restoration to lower margin of front wrapper, far from affecting text. A fine copy. VII, (1), 96 pp. First edition, presentation-copy, of the first text-book on rocketry and space-craft, together with the first edition of the important text of Esnault-Pelterie's 1927-symposium on the possibility of interplanetary travel. L'Astronautique with signed presentation-inscription to page 9: "With compliments / Esnault / Oct 1932". "Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (1881 - 1957) was a pioneering French spaceflight theorist and aircraft designer. He combined a mixture of theoretical and practical work and is well known for being the inventor of the control stick of the aeroplane. He was furthermore the fourth man in France to obtain the pilot's license."L'Astronautique outlined the key steps involved in the launching of an Earth satellite, interplanetary travel and rockettrajectories. Esnault-Pelterie began building his own rocket engine early the following year [1931]. In 1932 a rocket engine experiment went horribly wrong when the tetranitromethane fuel with which he was working exploded and he lost four fingers." (Harvey, Brian. Europe's Space Programme: To Ariane and Beyond, Springer, 2003, 3 pp.)Besides being remembered as a spaceflight-pioneer, Esnault-Pelteries has given name to the Esnault-Pelterie-crater on the Moon. "In the 1937 universal exhibition he stages an 'Astronautics Hall' and his moon rocket became the basis of Tin Tin's cartoon moon rocket." (Ibid., 4 pp.) L'Astronautique: Norman 715 ("Esnault-Pelterie's most important contribution to rocketry")"L'exploration par fusées de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires" is based on a symposium given by Esnault-Pelterie to the french Astronautics Society on June 8, 1927. - issued as the "Supplément au Bulletin de Mars 1928" of "L'Astronomie. Revue mensuelle d'astronomie de Météorologie et de Physique du Globe et Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France.Richard Green 105.

Esnault-Pelterie, Robert (1881-1957). L'Astronautique. [4], 248pp. Errata slip bound before p. 7. Frontispiece portrait signed by the author (found only in copies printed on thick paper), 9 folding plates. Paris: A. Lahure, 1930. 246 x 162 mm. (thick paper). Quarter morocco, marbled boards (slight edgewear), original printed wrappers bound in. Fine copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by Esnault-Pelterie to André-Gustave Citroën (1878-1935) on p. [6]: "Affectueux hommage à André Citroën et aussi témoinage d'admiration pour son oeuvre et sa tenacité, R Esnault Mai 1930." First Edition of Esnault-Pelterie's most important contribution to rocketry; inscribed by Esnault-Pelterie to André-Gustave Citroën, founder of the automobile company that bears his name. The inscription is also notable for dating from May 1930, when the work was first published. This is one of a relatively small number of copies that Esnault-Pelterie had printed on fine, thick paper for presentation. These copies also have a signed frontispiece portrait of REP. The bulk of the edition was printed on ordinary paper without the frontispiece. L'Astronautique was the first work to popularize the word astronautics among the scientific community. The book encompassed all that was then known about rocketry and space flight. The work is "a veritable treatise on space vehicles that served as a basis for all later works on this subject. It is a very profound theoretical study based on the thorough knowledge of celestial mechanics, astrophysics, and ballistics, as well as physical chemistry and physiology. Nothing in it has yet been invalidated. This book is a basic text for all interested in astronautics. One needs only to scan the chapter titles to see that it is both a scientific and technical document and an encyclopedia of precious practical knowledge: â ¢ Rocket Motion in Vacuum and Air â ¢ Density and Composition of the Very High Atmosphere â ¢ Expansion of Combination Gases through a Nozzle â ¢ Combustion in a Chamber â ¢ Possible Use of Rockets (high altitude exploration, launching projectiles to the moon, high-speed travel around the earth, and travel through the atmosphere) â ¢ Interplanetary Travel (with sections on the conditions under which trips around the moon will be carried out, the design of the spaceship, guidance, navigation and piloting devices, the conditions for habitation). For these last points, [Esnault-Pelterie] states that the spaceship could be filled with pure oxygen, which would reduce the pressure to about a tenth that of the atmosphere . . . [He] also suggests that the spaceship, for its return to earth, be turned and braked first by its own engines (today's retrorockets) and then by the use of a parachute" (Durant and James, First Steps toward Space, pp. 11-12). .

Octavo, single issue, original blue wrappers printed in black, untrimmed. Esnault-Pelterie's lecture on "considerations on the results of unlimited lightening of engines," delivered in 1912 in both St. Petersburg and Paris, was the first to demonstrate theoretically that space travel was possible; it marks the beginning of theoretical astronautics. "The lecture contains all the theoretical bases of self-propulsion, destroying the myth that rockets need atmospheric support and giving the real equation of motion. Anticipated is the use of auxiliary propulsion for guidance and complete maneuverability of rockets. Also contained are calculations of the escape velocity, the phases of a round-trip voyage to the Moon, and the times, velocities, and durations, of trips to the Moon, Mars, and Venus, as well as thermal problems related notably to the surface facing the sun . This 1912 lecture is the first purely scientific study marking the birth of astronautics. While Tsiolkovsky had the prescience and talent to first suggest, in 1903, rocket propulsion to space, REP was the first to develop the equations of the problem and to establish the mathematical theory of interplanetary flight. REP is thus the founder of theoretical astronautics" (Blosset, p. 9). As noted above, the use of rockets for space travel had been discussed by the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) in his 1903 paper, "Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices," as well as in an earlier paper published in 1896. However, Tsiolkovsky's work was published only in Russian and it remained almost completely unknown to Western scientists until the 1920s. Esnault-Pelterie did not know of Tsiolkovsky's rocketry work in 1912, but had become aware of it by 1930; see the historical introduction (pp. 17-38) of his L'ASTRONAUTIQUE. Esnault-Pelterie's lecture first appeared in print in the JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE THEORIQUE ET APPLIQUÉE, but in abridged form, due to both space considerations and the trepidation of the journal's editor, who was shocked by Esnault-Pelterie's ideas on space travel. "REP deplored the exaggerated condensation of the lecture, which was the cause for an apparent divergence between Goddard's and his own opinions concerning the possibility at the time of building vehicles capable of escaping from the earth's gravitation. In fact, Goddard wanted only to send a projectile loaded with powder to the moon and observe its arrival by telescope. REP considered the conditions necessary for transporting living beings from one celestial body to another and returning them to the earth; his more pessimistic conclusions were based on considerations of the substantial initial mass required for a rather small final mass, in view of the limited means available at the time" (Blosset, p. 9). Blosset, "Robert Esnault-Pelterie: Space pioneer," in Durant and James, First Steps toward Space (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974), pp. 5-31; pp. 23-31 contain an English translation of the unabridged lecture. Interlibrum 270 #112. Norman 713. Von Braun and Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space Travel, pp. 74-75. Spine panel restored, a very good copy of a very delicate work printed on inferior wood pulp paper. Rare. (#135078).

Large octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-96, tables in the text, original reddish-brown wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. Printed as a supplement to the March 1928 issue of L'ASTRONOMIE. A presentation copy with brief signed inscription by Esnault-Pelterie at top of page [1]. "Expounds original hypotheses of space flight that the author began to formulate in 1908 independently of the rocketry and astronautical ideas of pioneers Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskii, R. H. Goddard, and Herman Oberth. Calculates optimum rocket shapes, motion of a rocket in a vacuum, and safe acceleration speeds for manned flight. Presents the earliest known suggestions of atomic or nuclear rocket propulsion for planetary space missions, and considers the possibility of extraterrestrial life" (Pisano and Lewis). "One of the earliest and really serious papers on interplanetary travel and on the exploration of the upper atmosphere, by means of rockets. Esnault-Pelleterie"s study is independent of the slightly earlier treatise, in German, by Oberth, which he states he had not seen. The author devotes special attention to the problem of the escape velocity necessary to overcome the earth's gravitational pull, which he estimates at 10,000 meters per second. It was Esnault-Pelterie who coined the term Astronautics for the science of space flight. The present paper appeared as special supplement of the BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ ASTRONOMIQUE DE FRANCE, année 42, with a separate half-title and title-page" (Interlibrum). Ciancone 65. Interlibrum 270 #114. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 505. Norman 714. Pisano and Lewis 1197. Norman 714. Several mild creases to overlapping edges, else a fine copy. Rare. (#142812).