Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet (Icon Science)
de Andrew Nahum
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- 9781785782411
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Icon Books, 2017. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography and B&W photo plates. 177 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light 'to build a jet engine' at a time when to do so made little sense. Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved. 'Read it [and] learn more about what really happened.' Guardian.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light 'to build a jet engine' at a time when to do so made little sense. Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved. 'Read it [and] learn more about what really happened.' Guardian.
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- Librería
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2750
- Título
- Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet (Icon Science)
- Autor
- Andrew Nahum
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 178578241X
- ISBN 13
- 9781785782411
- Editorial
- Icon Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge England
- Fecha de publicación
- 2017
- Palabras clave
- Frank Whittle, Invention, Science, Icon science series, Jet, Jet engine, Power Jets, 1943, Innovation,
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