The Genesis of Flight: The Aeronautical History Collection of Colonel Richard Gimbel
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295978112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Army Air Force in England during World War II, and continued after becoming curator of aeronautical literature at Yale University. Important letters written by pioneers of flight--Montgolfier, Blanchard, Lunardi, Lilienthal, Count von Zeppelin, Santos-Dumont, Langley, and the Wright brothers--are to be found among the collection's manuscript holdings. The collection was donated to the United States Air Force Academy upon his death.The contributors include Tom D. Among the collection's thousands of books are priceless volumes printed before 1501. Many, such as Robert Hooke's Philosophical Collections (1682), are serious, scientific studies of the possibility of flight. The items included are drawn from more than 20,000 objects that vividly reflect both humanity's vision and its fulfillment. Five-thousand-year-old seals carved from semiprecious stones and used to inscribe clay tablets record the earliest conception of flight. More than 2,000 prints, portraits, engravings
The Gimbel Collection Widespread among mankind is the capacity to dream, to imagine, to visualize what might be and what could come to pass. And so it has been, manifestly, with dreams of flight. Since humans first took time to notice birds, bats and flying insects, man's mind has formed the wish to emulate them - to be able to fly - to rise above earth's surface, moving freely in air and space. Visual artists, painters, sculptors, and writers, have, over the centuries, depicted these dreams. From times many centuries before the mythology of Daedalus and Icarus have come historical depictions of imagined fli
Roland GreenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved. Here are 5,000-year-old Sumerian seals depicting flying men, sheet music from the early-twentieth-century days of powered flight ("Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" is just the best known), and examples of just about every other kind of printed artifact in between. From Booklist As a scion of the family that developed the famous department store that bears its name, the late Richard Gimbel was able to be a distinguished book collector as well as a colonel in the air force reserve. Expect accredited and amateur aviation historians, art historians, popular-culture mavens, and lovers of fine bookmaking all to pore over this handsome publication. The scope of his collection proves more impressive than the size and price of this lavish showcase of its highlights. Reproduction and commentary are of the highest qual