Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War is a classic technology history study by Frederick A. Talbot Ever since the earliest days of aeronautical engineering, first by the dirigible balloon and then by the airplane, their use in time of war has been a fruitful theme for discussion. But their arrival was of too recent a date, their many utilities too unexplored to provide anything other than theories, many obviously untenable, others avowedly problematical. Yet the part airships have played in the Greatest War has come as a surprise even to their most convinced advocates. For every expectation...
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War is a classic technology history study by Frederick A. Talbot Ever since the earliest days of aeronautical engineering...