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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.
- 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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