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Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why do airplanes look the way they do? Why can't birds fly when they're first born? And why do some paper planes fly farther than others? Discover everything there is to know about flight from Ada Twist, Scientist--from information about creatures that fly, to the history of aircrafts, to modern technology that allows us to soar through the air faster than ever!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers--bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio--changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot ... [David McCullough] draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them."--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle's students learn all about how airplanes fly when the zany teacher shrinks them to thumb size and takes to the skies in a model plane.
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xi, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry's son Bill Stine, who inherited his father's passion for...
Author
Series
Take them to the stars volume 1
Publisher
TorDotCom/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race....
Author
Series
Publisher
Maker Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 504 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Starting with the basics of rocket propulsion, readers will start out making rockets made from stuff lying around the house, and then move on up to air-, water-, and solid propellant-powered rockets.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Teaches toddlers all about planes and other machines that fly--with easy-to-understand facts about the many different ways humans can soar like birds"--
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
62 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photo essay tracing the history and development of aircraft from hot-air balloons to jetliners. Includes information on the principles of flight and the inner workings of various flying machines.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
Publisher
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.
Language
English
Description
The book covers significant developments in flying from the Wright brothers to the jet age and includes a brief discussion of stealth technology. Each chapter traces the evolution of American and European aircraft--civilian and military, piston and jet, subsonic and hypersonic--in the quest for distance, speed, altitude, size, and excellence. There are interesting accounts of the aviation pioneers and good discussions of aircraft design, performance,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe--ungoverned and infinite--was open for business. Welcome to the wild west of aerospace...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the two young men who pursued their dream of flying from experiments with kites up through their first airplane, but were ignored by the scientific community.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This blend of popular science and military history examines the science of war, demonstrating the close connection between the discovery of basic physical principles and the development of weaponry over the ages. Physics has played a critical role in warfare since the earliest times. Barry Parker highlights famous battles of the past as well as renowned scientists and inventors such as Leonardo, Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein whose work had...
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : colored illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Open the giant fold-out pages to discover the powerful rockets and spacecraft that explore outer space. From early rockets and Moon missions to space stations and beyond, learn what it takes to escape our planet and even to live in space.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
433 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the U.S. War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
119 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Don Sheldon has been called 'Alaska's bush pilot among bush pilots', but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-risk landing to the rescue of others from certain death in the mountains of Alaska or the routine delivery of supplies to a lonely homesteader. Read this book to learn how a hero was born, and also how he made his courageous journey to the unknown skies...
Series
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (24 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Space Exploration, Bill examines the "final frontier" and shows the tools humans invent to explore space. Meet Dr. Linda Horn, a NASA scientist who's helping to develop the Cassini spacecraft - destination Saturn!
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
2003 marks the 100th anniversary of the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. In this episode of Nova that explores the secrets of the Wright brothers' innovative genius, a team of modern builders, aviation experts, and historians join together to retrace, rebuild, and re-fly planes built to the specifications developed by the Wright Brothers a century ago. Vivid footage captures both the Wrights' own historic flights and the team's...
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