BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AERONAUTICS.
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. xiv+940, appendix; Maurizio Martino Publisher, Staten Island,New York, n.d.[1997]. Edition limited to 150 copies. *Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1910, as Volume 55 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections series. 'The interest of the Smithsonian Institution in aeronautics dates almost from the beginning of its work. Its early investigations in meteorology and later researches in the nature of the atmosphere under the Hodgkins Fund are fully treated in its publications. As early as 1861 the Institution was asked for assistance in carrying out experiments to cross the Atlantic by means of a balloon.'[Introduction]. Item #068421
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