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Explains technological advances in aeronautics, assesses the links between American culture and flight technology, and chronicles the history of American flight--commercial, military, and private
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"Bilstein casts wide and far to net virtually everything from technological trends and research and development to the effect of air travel on the expansion of major league baseball in the 1950s and early 1960s... A superior work that will satisfy aero buffsand professionals alike." -- Journal of American History
Roger E. Bilstein is a professor of history, emeritus, at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He is the author of Flight Patterns: Trends of Aeronautical Development in the United States, 1918-1929 and Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles.
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0801829739
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