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Title: Historic airships by Peter W Brooks ISBN: 0-238-78981-0 Publisher: H. Evelyn Pub. Date: 01 January, 1973 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $127.00

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Summary: Fascinating case history in the advance of technology.......
Comment: Lighter than air human flight was achieved 120 years before the aeroplane. The first balloons of the 18th century evolved into tentative dirigibles during the 19th century. Truly practical airships, like aeroplanes, had to await refinement of the petrol engine at the end of the 19th century. Not until early in the 20th century did such airships finally emerge but by then rapid development of the competing aeroplane had already started.
The first airships had fabric envelopes like balloons and kept their shape from the pressure of the contained gas. Airships of this type have been used in war and peace throughout the past century but, because they are too slow and too vulnerable to adverse weather conditions, they have failed as a serious means of transport.
This book describes and illustrates in great detail some of the most significant types of airship. It analyses the evolution particularly of the rigid airship and discusses the reasons for its failure and for its final eclipse by the aeroplane.
Sixteen half-page and full-page colour plates illustrated by Peter W. M. Griffin. Nearly thirty illustrations in the text, many are black/white photographs.
Includes biblio and appendices.

This text refers to the first hardcover edition published by Hugh Evelyn Limited, London, United Kingdom, in 1973.