Giants in the Sky
Author | : Douglas Hill Robinson |
Publisher | : Seattle : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Airships |
ISBN | : 9780295952499 |
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Author | : Douglas Hill Robinson |
Publisher | : Seattle : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Airships |
ISBN | : 9780295952499 |
Author | : John J. Geoghegan |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2021-10-29 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0750999071 |
Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going despite the obstacles thrown in their way – until the Navy deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first time, what really happened can be revealed.
Author | : Bill Gunston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Don Lessem |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780613644365 |
Get the answers to the most popular questions on dinosaurs including the latest information on dinosaur discoveries.
Author | : Dino Don Lessem |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Birds, Fossil |
ISBN | : 9780448426471 |
When giant dinosaurs ruled the earth, what was going on in the sky over their heads? Those bizarre flying creatures are called pterosaurs- find out about them in this book!
Author | : Ole Edvart Rølvaag |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Dakota Territory |
ISBN | : |
A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Author | : Judy Stubbs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Canadian fiction |
ISBN | : 9780888870674 |
Author | : James Glanz |
Publisher | : Times Books |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466863072 |
The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fall More than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, has ever produced--magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. Their builders were possessed of a singular determination to create wonders of capitalism as well as engineering, refusing to admit defeat before natural forces, economics, or politics. No one knows the history of the towers better than New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton. In a vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, the authors re-create David Rockefeller's ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan, the spirited opposition of local storeowners and powerful politicians, the bold structural innovations that later determined who lived and died, master builder Guy Tozzoli's last desperate view of the towers on September 11, and the charged and chaotic recovery that could have unraveled the secrets of the buildings' collapse but instead has left some enduring mysteries. City in the Sky is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon.
Author | : Patrick Chouinard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-09-28 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1591438330 |
An exploration of mythological and archaeological evidence for prehistoric giants • Examines the many corresponding giant mythologies throughout the world, such as the Greek and Roman titans, Norse frost giants, and the biblical Nephilim • Reveals recent finds of giant skeletons in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and India • Explains how giants passed on their sophisticated culture and civilization to humanity before being wiped out in the great age of cataclysms and floods Giants are a cornerstone of the myths, legends, and traditions of almost every culture on Earth. Stories of giants are often considered fantasies of the ancients or primitive attempts to explain natural phenomena, but archaeological discoveries of 10- and 12-foot skeletons--many of which have been suppressed--confirm the existence of a forgotten golden age of giants before recorded history. Patrick Chouinard examines the staggering number of corresponding giant mythologies throughout the world, such as the Greek and Roman titans, Norse frost giants, the Hindu Daityas, the biblical Nephilim, the Celtic Formorach, the Sumerian Anunnaki, and the multitude of myths in which the sky or world is held aloft on the shoulders of a giant. He links these stories to Atlantis as well as other legends of prehistoric civilizations lost to cataclysm and great floods whose survivors spawned the rise of ancient civilizations. The author reveals how physical remains of giant-size peoples have been found on almost every continent, including recent finds in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and northern India as well as hundreds of excavations of giant mummies and skeletons across the United States, corresponding directly with Native American accounts of red-haired giants. He also examines reports from famous explorers such as Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, and Desoto of their encounters with giants on the North American continent. Revealing how giants represent the true earthborn race, Chouinard explains how they engaged in open conflict with the extraterrestrial gods who created humanity for forced labor and how they passed their sophisticated culture and civilization on to humanity before being nearly wiped out in the great age of cataclysms.
Author | : Mick Wall |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2010-11-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429985615 |
The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a never-before-seen side of the genius and debauchery that defined their heyday. Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock ‘n' roll standards. Led Zeppelin was the last great band of the 1960s and the first great band of the 1970s—and When Giants Walked the Earth is the full, enthralling story of Zep from the inside, written by a former confidante of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Rich and revealing, it bores into not only the disaster, addiction and death that haunted the band but also into the real relationship between Page and Plant, including how it was influenced by Page's interest in the occult. Comprehensive and yet intimately detailed, When Giants Walked the Earth literally gets into the principals' heads to bring to life both an unforgettable band and an unrepeatable slice of rock history.