Jeremy R. Kinney

Reinventing the Propeller (eBook, ePUB)

Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled increasingly sophisticated and 'modern' commercial and military aircraft to climb quicker and cruise faster using less power. Reinventing the Propeller nimbly moves from the minds of these inventors to their drawing boards, workshops, research and development facilities, and factories, and then shows us how their work performed in the air, both commercially and militarily. Reinventing the Propeller documents this story of a forgotten technology to reveal new perspectives on engineering, research and development, design, and the multi-layered social, cultural, financial, commercial, industrial, and military infrastructure of aviation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108124249
• Artikelnr.: 49046686

Autorenporträt

Jeremy R. Kinney is a Curator in the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC. Kinney received his PhD in the history of technology in 2003 from Auburn University, Alabama. His research and curatorial focus is aeronautics in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific emphasis on interwar and World War II military aviation, air racing, and aircraft propulsion technology. His publications include Alaska and the Airplane: A Century of Flight (with Julie Decker, 2013), Airplanes: The Life Story of a Technology (2008), and the award-winning The Wind and Beyond: Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America (with James R. Hansen, D. Bryan Taylor and J. Lawrence Lee, 2009), essays in various anthologies, and articles in ICON and the Journal of Aircraft.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. The propeller and the modern airplane
2. 'The best propeller for starting is not the best for flying'
3. 'Engineering of a pioneer character'
4. A 'new type adjustable-pitch propeller'
5. 'The propeller that took Lindbergh across'
6. 'The ultimate solution of our propeller problem'
7. No. 1 propeller company
8. A gear shift for the airplane
9. Constant-speed
10. 'The Spitfire now 'is an aeroplane''
11. A propeller for the air age
12. Conclusion. The triumph and decline of the propeller
Essay on sources
Index.