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1937022682New York: William K Vanderbilt / Richard K Ellis 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Full Page Photographic Plates Throughout. 137 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Edition. One Of 1000 Copies Designed By Richard Ellis And Published Under His Supervision At The Haddon Craftsmen Press And Signed By Ellis On The Colophon. Additionally With A Long Inscription By Ellis To Robert Hathaway Also Signed By Ellis And With Robert "Bob" Hathaway's Calligraphic Ownership Information On Front Pastedown. Lightly Used Book No Damage Or Fraying. Except Two Short Tears To Last Page . Dj Worn At Edges With Short Splits At Spine And Flap Folds. Richard Williamson Ellis Was Born In Washington D.C. In 1895. After Being Introduced To And Inspired By The Acclaimed Typographer Bruce Rogers Ellis Began Collecting The Books Of Master Printers As Wells As Their Letters Pamphlets Ephemera Broadsides And Proofs. In 1924 Ellis Launched His Own Press The Georgian Press Initially Located On Fifth Avenue In New York. In 1927 Ellis Moved The Georgian Press To A Renovated Barn In Westport Connecticut Where He Stayed Until 1933. Ellis Printed Some Fifty Books. Although Some Of Them Carried His Own Imprint The Majority Of Books Produced At Georgian Were Printed For Publishers And Private Collectors. At Georgian Press Ellis Became Associated With Many Of The Famous Printers Publishing Houses Bookshops And Private Collectors Of The Day Such As Cheshire House Random House Rimington And Hooper And Doubleday Doran And Company. In 1930 Ellis First Collaborated With The Limited Edition Book Club With Whom He Would Establish A Lifelong Relationship. Despite Ellis' Artistic Success And Fame At Georgian Press Financial Difficulties Exacerbated By The Depression Forced Ellis To Close His Business And Sell The Press In 1933 To George Macy Founder Of The Limited Edition Book Club And The Heritage Club. In 1935 He And His Wife Esther Moved To Camden New Jersey Where Ellis Took A Position With Haddon Craftsmen. Ellis' Time At Haddon Craftsmen Ended In 1942. From 1942 To 1944 He Worked For Kingsport Press In Kingsport Tennessee. In 1945 Ellis Moved To New York As A Consulting Book Printer. Ellis Worked At Curtis Publishing In Philadelphia From 1947 To 1956 Working On The Firm's Popular Magazines The Saturday Evening Post Ladies' Home Journal Country Gentlemen Jack And Jill And Holiday. After Leaving Curtis Ellis Once Again Struck Out On His Own. Ellis' Final Work Was Commissioned By The Free Library Of Philadelphia And Was Completed While Ellis Was In His Eighties: Pennsylvania German Fraktur Of The Free Library Of Philadelphia. Publication Of The Book Marked The End Of A Sixty-Year Career In Book Designing And Printing. During His Lengthy Career Ellis Gained Recognition Amongst His New York And Philadelphia Colleagues As A Master Of Fine Printing. Ellis Died On October 9 1982 In Philadelphia. <br/> <br/> William K Vanderbilt / Richard K Ellis hardcover
1920042796Philadelphia: George H. Doran 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Maps Diagrams Photographs. 540 Pp. Green Cloth Lettered In Black. First Edition. Authorized History Author Given Access To All War Department Maps Etc. Theodore Roosevelt's Pre-Publication Comment: "For A Correct And Readable Statement Of The Work In Europe I Know Of No Other Book That I Consider Better Than Yours." Book Near Fine No Marks. Dust Jacket With Browning 1" Chip At Base Of Spine Removing The Publisher's Name Small Losses At Corners. Small 1920 Illustrated Bookstore Label Of "The Satyr Book Shop" Hollywood On Rear Pastedown. <br/> <br/> George H. Doran hardcover
1901042035New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. First Edition First Printing . Embossed Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 7 3/4" Tall. I-Xii 1-299; P. 300 Blank. Blue Cloth. Gilt Lettering And Design On Front Cover And Spine. Deckled Fore Edge And Bottom Edge. A Scarce Title But Exact Number Of Copies Printed Is Not Known. Library Of Congress Copy Deposited May 15 1901. This Copy With Cover Gilt Brilliant Spine Gilt Bright But No Longer Brilliant Tiny Rubs At Corners With No Fraying. Front Hinge Cracked At Endpapers But Still Tight. No Marks No Fraying. <br/> <br/> McClure, Phillips & Co. hardcover
1951005002New York: L. Harper & Brothers Publishers 1951 First printing of the first American edition with an "A" on the title and half-title page light blue cloth boards with blue-lettered spine illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price on the front flap sixteen inserted photographs including the frontispiece and fourteen diagrammatic line drawings within the text 164pp. with index. Clarke's first published book while Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Book with faint toning to page margins else in fine condition; dust jacket with a bit of tanning to spine and folds and light edge wear else fine. L. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
1960050418New York City Ny: Columbia University Press 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Jacket. Xii 93 Pp. Beige Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine Small Bump At Center Of Lower Edge F Front And Rear Covers. Inscribed On 6/16/1960 From Dubridge President Of Caltech To John Simon Fluor Jr. President Of Important Space Contractor Fluor Corporation And A Caltech Trustee. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50 Light Wear. <br/> <br/> Columbia University Press hardcover
1989059727New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 381 Pp. Black Cloth Spine Red Boards. First Edition Stated First Printing Indicated. Inscribed By The Author To Caltech Physicist Robert Leighton And Dated July 1989; The Book Was First Published In July 1989 Per Norton Publicity. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
1954057392New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 289 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing. Analysis And Formulas Throughout. Light Wear Lettering Bright No Fraying. "Engineering Cybernetics" Was A Groundbreaking Work Applying Principles Of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics To Problems Of Engineering Particularly Aeronautics. The Only Book Published By This Author In The Us. During The 1940'S Qian Was One Of The Founders Of The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Including Early Experiments In The Arroyo Seco. During The Second Red Scare Of The 1950S The United States Government Accused Qian Of Having Communist Sympathies As He Was Providing Chinese Contacts With Scientific Technical Information And He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance In 1950. Qian Then Decided To Return To China But Instead Was Detained At Terminal Island Near Los Angeles. After Spending 5 Years Under Virtual House Arrest Qian Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Captured During The Korean War. Notified By U.S. Authorities That He Was Free To Go Qian Immediately Arranged His Departure Leaving For China In September 1955 On The Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland Of American President Lines Via Hong Kong. He Returned To Lead The Chinese Rocket Program And Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry" Or "King Of Rocketry". He Is The Cousin Of The Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien And His Nephew Is The 2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Winner Roger Y. Tsien. Asteroid 3763 Qianxuesen And The Ill-Fated Space Ship Tsien In The Science Fiction Novel "2010: Odyssey Two" Are Named After Him. A Near Fine Book.No Marks. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover
1845104486BBLeipzig, Barth, 1845. 8°. VIII, 646 S. mit 2 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. Pbd. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückensch.
1945020310Washington: U. S.Army Air Forces 1945. First Edition Thus . Card / Posts. Very Good. 16 3/4" x 10 3/4. Charts. First Published 1 Dec 1943 With Update Pages To July 1945. An Outsetanding L Reference For Us Air Force History. <br/> <br/> U. S.Army Air Forces unknown
1901036153New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. First Edition First Printing . Embossed Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 7 3/4" Tall. I-Xii 1-299; P. 300 Blank. Blue Cloth. Gilt Lettering And Design On Front Cover And Spine. Deckled Fore Edge And Bottom Edge. A Scarce Title But Exact Number Of Copies Printed Is Not Known. Library Of Congress Copy Deposited May 15 1901. This Copy With All Gilt Brilliant As Issued. Light Rubbing To Small Areas Of Cloth On Edges And Tips With Just Loss Of Color At Those Points Of Wear But No Loss Of Cloth. Two Faint Extremely Thin Long Shallow Scratches On Front Cover Barely Visible. Partial Light Cracking Of Front Hinge. An Especially Bright And Attractive Example. This Copy Has The Partially Erased Signature Of Mrs. W. D. Reed With Her Penciled Address 116 12Th Street Oakland California. No Other Marks Or Flaws. <br/> <br/> McClure, Phillips & Co. hardcover
1956022920New York: Ballantine Books 1956. First Edition Hardcover Issue . Yellow Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Publisher's Personal Copy Never Sold Or Circulated Direct From The Publisher's Library. Bound In Yellow Cloth. As Issued. One Of The Scarcer Ballantine Hardcovers. Book Is Clean No Names Or Other Marks Foxing Along Top Edge Of Page Block Browning To Pages And Upper 1" Of Endpapers. Dj Complete No Edge Wear Just A Little Very Faint Foxing And Some Fading Of The Orange Background Of The Spine All White Lettering Remaining Quite Sharp Slight Fading To Spine With All Lettering And Design Sharp 1/4" Closed Tear Near Spine Edge On Rear Panel. Per Wikipedia Jack Jones Cbe 1884 - 1970 Was A Welsh Miner Trade Union Official Politician Novelist And Playwright. During His 20S Jack Jones Began To Educate Himself And Develop His Love Of The Theatre And Writing Often Taking Part In Local Dramatic Productions. In 1926 He Successfully Entered A Short Play He Had Written Entitled Dad's Double Into A Competition In Manchester. He Began Writing Seriously During A Period Of Unemployment. His First Novel Saran Was Never Published But A Reduced Version Of It Appeared As Black Parade 1935. By 1939 He Had Written The Novels Rhondda Roundabout 1934 And Bidden To The Feast 1938 A Play Land Of My Fathers 1937 And His First Autobiography Unfinished Journey 1937. The London Stage Version Of Rhondda Roundabout Was Acclaimed. He Wrote The Dialogue For The Film The Proud Valley In Which He Also Had A Minor Acting Role. During The Second World War He Was A Speaker For The Ministry Of Information And The National Savings Movement. He Wrote The Man David 1944 A Life Of David Lloyd George. After The War He Wrote Two Volumes Of Autobiography Me And Mine 1946 And Give Me Back My Heart 1950 Three Novels Off To Philadelphia In The Morning 1947 Made Into A Bbc Drama Of The Same Name In 1978 Some Trust In Chariots 1948 And River Out Of Eden 1951 And A Play Transatlantic Episode 1947. His Later Works Lily Of The Valley And Lucky Year 1952 Time And The Business 1953 Choral Symphony 1955 And Come Night; End Day 1956 Were Less Well Received. In 1954 He Married His Second Wife Gladys Morgan. He Was Elected First President Of The English Section Of Yr Academi Gymreig. Until His Death In May 1970 He Continued Writing; These Works Remained Unpublished Including A Biographical Novel A Burnt Offering Based On The Life Of Dr William Price 1800-1893 Llantrisant Pioneer Of Cremation. <br/> <br/> Ballantine Books hardcover
1952059635New York: Viking Press 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 11 " Tall. Xiv 147 Pp. First Edition Stated First Printing 1952. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver Thick Pages. A Bright Clean Almost Unworn Example No Marks Or Dampstaining. Dustjacket Priced $3.95 Small Chip To Head Of Spine Some Surface Loss Along Front Spine Edge And Along The Flap Folds Spine Faded But Lettering Very Clear. <br/> <br/> Viking Press hardcover
SCI605M1847-1852, Gide et Cie, puis Gide et J. Baudry. 4 tomes reliés en trois volumes in-8, demi-chagrin vert anglais, dos à nerfs à grands ornés. T.1 :(4), VII, (1 bl.) - T.2 : VIII, 580 pp. ; XIV, (2), 636 pp. - T.3 : VIII, (2), 363 pp., (1 bl.) ; VI, (2) pp. 365 - 763pp. Coins très légèrement enfoncés et émoussés. Rares et infimes frottements des dos. Intérieur agréable seulement parsemés de rousseurs diffuses sans envergure ni incidence sur l'esthétique générale de l'ouvrage. Très bel exemplaire de cette ambitieuse synthèse des phénomènes physiques rassemblée par Humboldt.
1946016315Pasadena: California Institute of Technology 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Photographs and Diagrams. 165 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt With "Restricted" On Cover Copyright Page With Natiojnal Defense / Espionage Act Statement Prohibiting Unauthorized Distribution. Photographs Throughout. Description And Analysis Of Methods Used To Analyze Record And Document Field Testing Of Rockets Primarily At The Goldstone Range. A Bright Clean Unworn Unmarked Example. <br/> <br/> California Institute of Technology hardcover
19791641Moscow: Nauka / Ðаука 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Tan flexi-bound hardcover first edition. Text in Russian. A good only copy of this scarce publication from the USSR on lunar soil samples. Minor musty smell. Corners heavily bumped and soil to the front cover and the text block edges. Flexible binding is solid and pages are firmly bound in. Interior appears to be unmarked. Bumping to the lower corners of the pages. One miscut page is creased toward the final gathering of the book. Filled with charts graphs and some black and white photos. 708 pp. title page in English and Russian but the text is solely in Russian. Hard to find in any condition. <br /> Nauka / Ðаука hardcover
1981035420New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First American Edition 1st Printing. Cloth/Boards. Fine/Near Fine. 446 Pp. Maroon Cloth Over Grey Boards. "First American Edition" Stated But True First Edition Preceding The British Edition Published By Jonathan Cape. Winner Of The Booker Prize Also Winner Of The "Booker Of Bookers". Signed By Rushdie On The Title Page. A Bright Clean Fine Book. No Remainder Marks. Dust Jacket Is Clean Slight Fading To Pink Background Color On Spine Light Wear Along Bottom Edge Of Spine With A 1/8" Square Chip Near The Spine Edge Price Clipped 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1969039063Cape Canaveral: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1969. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Original NASA Color Photograph of Gemini 5 and Gemini 11 and later Apollo 12 and Skylab 2 astronaut Col. Charles Conrad in white space suit smiling at camera. Inscribed "To Lou Again for the third time you are the best damn cook in the world. Are you ready to sail around the moon- "Pete" Charles Conrad". Inscribed for Louis Hartsell the chef in the Astronaut Training Facility at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral. An original photograph with undated NASA printed notations on reverse indicating that Conrad is one of nine astronauts selected by NASA on September 17 1962. From Hartsell's collection of astronaut photographs all taken and signed circa 1964-1972. Conrad's "for the third time" indicates that this was signed just before Apollo 12 launched. <br/> <br/> National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
039062Cape Canaveral: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1971. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Original Nasa Color Photograph Of All Three Apollo 15 Astronauts Smiling At Camera. Inscribed "To Lou Best Wishes From Apollo 15 Crew" Personally Signed By Jim Irwin Dave Scott And Al Worden And Additionally Signed On Back By Irwin's Wife And Children. For Louis Hartsell The Chef In The Astronaut Training Facility At The Kennedy Space Center At Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral. An Original Photograph But Without The Usual Nasa Serial Number And Notations On Reverse. From Hartsell's Collection Of Astronaut Photographs All Taken And Signed Circa 1964-1972. <br/> <br/> National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
1965039061Cape Canaveral: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1965. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Original Nasa Photograph "Nasa S-65-26763" In White Area At Top Of Apollo 1 Astronaut Edward H White And His Wife Facing Camera And Two Media Interviewers. Inscribed "To Murphy- Thank You For The Great Coverage On 6T-4! Edward H White / To Murphy Martin With Much Appreciation For Your Cooperation On 6Ttv Pat White." Photograph Mounted On Black Card 1" Tear At Lower Corner With No Loss. <br/> <br/> National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
1904036161New York: The Macmillan Company 1904. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 7 3/4 Tall. 366 Pp 3 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth Spine With Gilt Lettering Front Cover With White Lettering And An Illustration Stamped In Dark Blue White And Red Top Edge Gilt. First Printing First Issue Publishing Date 1904 On Title Page And Copyright Notices 1903 And 1904 On Copyright Page Only One Copy One Of Jack London's Personal Copies Now In The Huntington Library Is Known With All Copyright Notices Dated 1904 And Was Apparently A Preliminary Issue And Never Actually Published In This Form. Spine Lettering In Gilt It Is Thought That The Gilt Lettered Issue Has Priority. 63387 Copies Printed Of Which The Gilt Lettered Issue Is Much Scarcer. Front Cover With Colored Embossed Design And Complete Chalk Lettering Whites A Little Darkened And Very Slight Loss White In Sky. Spine With Complete Shiny Gilt Lettering Top Edge Gilt A Little Worn. A Generally Bright Clean Copy Worn Along Edges Pinpoint Fray At Top Of Spine And Tiny Frays At Two Lower Tips. Cloth On Spine With Some Discoloration. Hinges Solid No Cracking. No Foxing. Small Owner's Signature Agnes L. Babbitt Dated 1906 At Top Of Front Free Endpaper. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1919042059New York: The Macmillan Company 1919. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 7 5/8" Tall. Vi 229 Pp. One Of 4972 Copies Printed. 1919 Date On Copyright And Title Pages. Blue Cloth Stamped In Yellow-Orange And Darker Blue. First Printing. Very Good: Wear But No Fraying Tiny Dig On Bottom Edge Of Front Board Spine Cloth With Some Browning. Bookplate Of Jack London With His Original Signature Clipped From A Check Or Deposit Slip Mounted Beneath With Long Ink Inscription From Charmian London To Someone Who Sailed In Hawaii With Them: "Dear Clement Greswell : In Memory Of A Lusty Squall In The Hawaii Channel And Some Very Pleasant Conversation- To Say Nothing Of "Salt Horse" Sandwiches! Wasn't It Fun! These Are The Last Stories Jack Ever Wrote. I Know You'll Love Them For His Sake And Hawaii's. Charmian London. Glen Ellen June 1 1920." This Copy Last Sold At Auction At Pba January 27 1994. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1940006888Lancaster: Journal of the Franklin Institute 1940. First Separate Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 9 1/2" Tall. 454 Pp. Original Offprint From The Journal Of The Franklin Institute In Their Gray Wrappers Not Ex-Library. Gray Wrappers Printed In Black. Light Wear Fading Along Edges. Frank Malina 1912-1981 Played An Important Role In The Beginnings Of The U. S. Government's Rocket Program And Thereby The U. S. Space Program Through His Founding Role In The Galcit Rocket Research Program Working With Theodore Von Karman And A Small Group Of Cal Tech Students And Others. This Early Paper Discusses Constant Pressure Motors Which Include Either Gas Liquid Or Solid Propellants As Opposed To Constant Volume Solid Pellet Motors And Is Of Importance As Later That Year Malina Is Credited With A Major Role In The Development Of Solid-Fuel Motor Fuel Together Several Of His Co-Workers And Von Karman Was The First Or Second Director Of Jpl And Later Started A New Career As An Avant-Garde Artist And Founder Of The Original Journal Of Arts And Sciences "Leonardo". Ownership Signature Of Mark Serrurier 1904 - 1988 Ehe Son Of Dutch-Born Electrical Engineer Iwan Serrurier Who Created The Moviola In 1924 Which Became The Technology Used For Film Editing. Mark Was A Graduate Of Caltech And Went On To Work On Designs For The Mt. Palomar 200 Inch 5 M Hale Telescope. The Pioneering Truss Design He Invented For That Instrument's Massive Tube Structure The "Serrurier Truss" Is Still Used Today In Large Telescope Designs. During World War Ii Mark Worked At The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Testing Jet Aircraft Engines. In 1942 Rolf Sabersky Worked In Mechanical Design On The Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel Under Serrurier And Hap Richards. After The War In 1946 Mark Took Over As President Of Moviola Co. His Father Iwan'S Company. Mark Re-Designed His Fathers Invention With Many Improvements And Ran The Company Until He Sold It In 1966. In 1979 Mark Accepted A Special Academy Award For Technical Achievement" For The Progressive Development Of The Moviola From The 1924 Invention Of His Father Iwan Serrurier To The Present Series 20 Sophisticated Film Editing Equipment". He Only Accepted After Insisting That His Late Father's Name Would Also Appear On The Statue. This Offprint- As Most Early "Arroyo Seco Group" Rocket Material- Is Quite Scarce. <br/> <br/> Journal of the Franklin Institute unknown
1908036673New York: Edward Stern & Co. 1908. First Edition First State 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 287 Pp. First Issue With Publisher's Name Printed Once On Copyright Page And Illustrations Listed On Verso Of Contents Page. A Bright Clean Copy With Just A Touch Of Wear At Tips; Hinges Tight No Foxing No Marks No Damage All Plates Present All Pages Square Illustration On Front Cover Bright Clean No Marks And Just A Very Faint Touch Of Wear And With An Almost Invisible 3/4" Damp Spot. This Adult Book Was Later Made Into A 1914 Movie By Baum's Movie Production Company. <br/> <br/> Edward Stern & Co. hardcover
1935047125Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1935 1936 1935. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Complete Volume Numbers 1-12 Bound Without Wrappers Black Cloth Spine Gilt Over Boards Ownership Stamps Of Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau; M. O. D. Adastral Library; And Central School Of Aircraft Recognition / 11 Jan 1955 / Royal Air Force Ownership Paper Label Of British Air Staff Intelligence Headquarters. <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1935 1936 paperback
1938047122Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Vi 463-504 Ii 36 Pp Ads At Rear. Two Issues. Original Green Wrappers Lettered In Black. Light Wear; Ownership Signature Of Aeronautical Engineer John Stack Part 1 And Aeronautical Engineer Richard Q. Bourn Part 2; John Stack 1906-1972 Won The Collier Trophy In 1947 And 1951 He Worked At Langley Research Center From 1928 To 1962 And Republic Aircraft Corporation From 1962 To 1971. He Gave The Eighth Wright Brothers Lecture "Compressible Flows In Aeronautics" 1945. Quotation: "Let's Try The Damn Thing And See If We Can Make It Work." He Worked On Transonic Flight. He Was Part Of The Bell X-1 Team. He Worked With The Variable Density Tunnel On Compressible Airflow. Qian Xuesen Or Hsue-Shen Tsien Chinese: ; 11 December 1911 - 31 October 2009 Was A Chinese Mathematician Cyberneticist Aerospace Engineer And Physicist Who Made Significant Contributions To The Field Of Aerodynamics And Established Engineering Cybernetics. Recruited From Mit He Joined Theodore Von Kármán's Group At Caltech. During Wwii He Was Involved In The Manhattan Project Which Ultimately Led To The Successful Development Of The First Atomic Bomb In America. Later On Under The Pressure Of Deportation For Suspicions Of Association With Communists He Would Eventually Return To China Where He Would Make Important Contributions To China's Missile And Space Program. During The Second Red Scare In The 1950S The Us Federal Government Accused Him Of Communist Sympathies. In 1950 Despite Protests By His Colleagues He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance. He Decided To Return To China But He Was Detained At Terminal Island Near Los Angeles. After Spending Five Years Under House Arrest He Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Who Had Been Captured During The Korean War. He Left The United States In September 1955 On The American President Lines Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland Arriving In China Via Hong Kong. Upon His Return He Helped Lead The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program. This Effort Ultimately Led To China's First Successful Atomic Bomb Test And Hydrogen Bomb Test Making China The Fifth Nuclear Weapons State And Achieving The Fastest Fission-To-Fusion Development In History. Additionally Qian's Work Led To The Development Of The Dongfeng Ballistic Missile And The Chinese Space Program. For His Contributions He Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry" Nicknamed The "King Of Rocketry". He Is Recognized As One Of The Founding Fathers Of Two Bombs One Satellite. In 1957 Qian Was Elected An Academician Of The Chinese Academy Of Sciences. He Served As A Vice Chairman Of The National Committee Of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference From 1987 To 1998. He Was The Cousin Of Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien Who Was Involved In The Aerospace Industries Of China And The United States; His Nephew Is Roger Y. Tsien The 2008 Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Chemistry. Introductory Material From Wikipedia Prefacing The Full Article. <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences paperback
