Dirigible dreams : the age of the airship /

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Author / Creator:	Hiam, C. Michael.
Imprint:	Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Subject:	Airships -- History. Airships. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11238054

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ISBN:	9781611686975 1611686970 1611685605 9781611685602 9781611685602
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Here is the story of airships--manmade flying machines without wings--from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated the imaginations of people worldwide, but in less than fifty years dirigible became a byword for doomed futurism, an Icarian figure of industrial hubris. Dirigible Dreams looks back on this bygone era, when the future of exploration, commercial travel, and warfare largely involved the prospect of wingless flight.
Other form:	Print version: Hiam, C. Michael. Dirigible dreams. Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, 2014

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