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The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784 : with a word on the importance of ballooning for the science of heat and for the art of building railroads / by Charles Coulston Gillispie.

Van Pelt Library TL617.M66 G48 1983
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
Contributor:
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel.
Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799.
Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne.
Aeronautics--History.
Aeronautics.
History.
Balloonists--France--Biography.
Balloonists.
France.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Place of Publication:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1983]
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 178-179.
ISBN:
0691083215 :
OCLC:
186555988

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