Hunsaker, J C (Editor), Articles By Clark B Millikan,Theodore Von Karman, Tung-Hua Lin EtcBiblio.com
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1936047126Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1936 1937 1936. 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. Millikan And Von Karman Are Among The Most Famous American Aeronautical Engineers. Tung Hua Lin 1911 - 2007 Was A Chinese-American Aerospace And Structural Engineer Best Known For Designing China's First Twin Engine Aircraft During World War Ii. Lin Was Born In Chungking In May 1911. His Grandfather Was Head Of The Local Telegraph Agency. In 1914 His Family Moved To Beijing. He Enrolled In Huiwen High School In 1924 Graduating In 1928. After Graduation He Entered Yenching University Majoring In Physics But The Following Year Transferred To Chiaotung University's Tangshan Hebei Campus Present-Day Southwest Jiaotong University Graduating With A Bachelor Of Science Degree In 1933. He Then Won A Chinese National Fellowship To Study In The United States In 1933. He Completed His Master Of Science Degree At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology In 1936. He Returned To Teach At Tsing Hua University In 1937. Lin Was Asked To Design Aircraft During World War Ii. His Production Team Worked In A Cave To Protect Against Bombing By The Japanese. He Lacked Modern Design Tools Such As Wind Tunnels To Test The Aircraft. The C-0101 Which He Designed And Constructed Largely From Bamboo And Wood Was Test Flown From Chungking To Chengdu On November 18 1944. Lin Was Awarded A Medal By The Chinese Government For His Efforts. After The War Lin Was A Member Of A Mission To Design Jet Aircraft In China. They Approached The St. Louis Missouri-Based Mcdonnell Aircraft About Mass-Producing Their Aircraft But As The Price Quoted Was Too Expensive They Instead Chose Gloucester England's Gloster Aircraft Company; Lin Was Part Of A 20-Person Design Team Who Moved To England To Work With Them In 1947. However Due To A Lack Of Funding They Had To Halt Production In 1949 Whereupon Lin Moved To The United States. There He Taught At The University Of Detroit While Studying For His Doctorate At The University Of Michigan. He Became A Professor At The University Of California Los Angeles In 1955; While There He Published The Theory Of Inelastic Structure In 1968. Lin Was Awarded The Theodore Von Kármán Medal By The American Society Of Civil Engineers In 1988. His Research On Earthquake Stress In Construction Materials Led To A Fellowship In The National Academy Of Engineering In 1990. Taiwan's Academia Sinica Named Him As A Member In 1996. His Cousin Tung-Yen Lin Was Also One Of The Outstanding Structural Engineers Of The 20Th Century. <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1936 1937 paperback
1937047127Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1937 1938 1937. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Complete Volume Numbers 1-12 Bound Without Wrappers But With The Complete Index To Volume 5 Bound In At Front. 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. Includes Two Articles By Von Karman Including One Co-Authored With Tsien One Co-Authored With W. R. Sears And Von Karman's Letter To The Editor On Aerodynamics; One Article By Frank J Malina Coauthored With A. M. O. Smith "Flight Analysis Of The Sounding Rocket"; One Article By Tsien "Supersonic Flow Over An Inclined Body Of Revolution" And Another Co-Authored With Von Karman "Boundary Layer In Compressible Fluids". <br/> <br/> Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1937 1938 paperback
1946047124Easton Pa: Institute Of The Aeronautical Sciences 1946. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Ii 623- Pp. Original Green Wrappers Lettered In Black. Light Wear; Ownership Signature Of Aeronautical Engineer Raymond J. Comenzo. Per Wikipedia 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
1911042607New York: The Macmillan Company / Norwood Press 1911. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 3/4 Tall. 319 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Olive Green Not Brown Cloth Lettered In Gilt Stamped Intaglio Not Flat Surface Printing In Light Gray-Green And Red On Front Cover And On The Spine. Some Other Copies Of First Printing Have Printing All Intaglio Of Light Gray-Green On Front Cover And Dark Green On Spine But Most Others Have Color Printing Without Intaglio Red And Gray-Green On The Cover And Spine Differences Not Noted By Sisson And Martens No Priority Established. We Find This To Be The Scarcest Variant And We Believe It To Be The First Issue One Of Only 3748 Copies Of All Three Variants. The Book Is In Exceptional Condition Very Near Fine Just Traces Of Rubbing Right On Edges At Corners Tight And Clean; Former Owner's Bookplate With Illustration From An Antique Print Of Man And Death. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company / Norwood Press hardcover
1907042055New York: The Macmillan Company 1907. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 3/4" High. Xii 224 Pp. 4 Pp Ads At Rear. First Printing Published November 1907. 5360 Copies. Light Grey Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black Top Edge Gilt. First Printing First Binding. Very Near Fine An Exceptionally Well Preserved Example No Wear And Rare Thus; The Book Is Oversize And Heavy And The Light Gray Cloth Is Very Susceptible To Signs Of Soiling. Faint 1/4" Spot On Spine Below "Road" Another Adjacent On Front Cover; Upper Two Tips Bumped. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1972052333Little Brown 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 89 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Price-Clipped Dust Jacket. Inscribed By Bonestell To Jpl Astronomer Ray L. Newburn "With Best Wishes"; Newburn Shared Information And Advice With Bonestel Newburn Is Specifically Cited In The Acknowledgments And They Were Friends For Many Years. <br/> <br/> Little, Brown hardcover
1980036485Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. First Printing 1980 Date On Title And Copyright Pages No Additional Printing Indicated. In First Issue Dust Jacket Price Clipped Walker Percy Review On Back Panel No Sun Times Review. Near Fine Book Slight Bumping At Bottom Of Spine Some Rubbing At Part Of Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine With 1/32" Pull Tear At Top Of Spine. Ownership Signature Of The Father Of A Friend Of Toole's Who Brought Toole Over To His Home. Dj With Wear And Minute Losses At Corners A 7/8" Long Up To 1/4" Deep Chip At Top Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Louisiana State University Press hardcover
1973050039U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Xiii 143. Separate Discussions By The Four Authors About Mars As Planet And Metaphor. Inscribed By Bruce Murray And Carl Sagan Later Additionally Signed By Ray Bradbury. Very Lightly Used Faint Small Tape Ghosts On Covers And Endpapers. Dust Jacket Very Near Fine But Price Clipped And With A 1 1/2" Tear Near Bottom Of Front Flap Fold. <br/> <br/> Harper & Row hardcover
1903042027New York London: The Macmillan Company 1903. First Edition First Issue 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 7 9/16" Tall. 262 Pp. 3 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Green Cloth Decorated In Darker Shades Gilt Spine Lettering White Spine Lettering. Teg. First Edition First Issue With The Author's Names Omitted Throughout. Publisher's Name On Spine In Letters 3/16" Tall; No Priority Established. This Copy Signed By Jack London On The Title Page In Pencil. Written As A Collaboration Between Jack London And Anna Strunsky. Ms. Strunsky Was An Active Socialist Was Married To Socialist And Naacp Founder William English Walling And Was The Aunt Of Leonore Strunsky Born 1900 Who Was The Late Wife Of Composer Ira Gershwin. Some Wear Gilt Still Bright A Few Points Of Fraying At Ends Of Spine No Fraying To Tips Lacking Front Free Blank Endpaper. Name Stamps Of A Previous Owner R. M. Price On Front And Rear Endpapers. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
