THE MASTERY OF THE AIR


By William J. Claxton






CONTENTS


PREFACE

THE MASTERY OF THE AIR

PART I.   BALLOONS AND AIR-SHIPS

CHAPTER I.   Man's Duel with Nature

CHAPTER II.   The French Paper-maker who Invented the Balloon

CHAPTER III.   The First Man to Ascend in a Balloon

CHAPTER IV.   The First Balloon Ascent in England

CHAPTER V.   The Father of British Aeronauts

CHAPTER VI.   The Parachute

CHAPTER VII.   Some British Inventors of Air-ships

CHAPTER VIII.   The First Attempts to Steer a Balloon

CHAPTER IX.   The Strange Career of Count Zeppelin

CHAPTER X.   A Zeppelin Air-ship and its Construction

CHAPTER XI.   The Semi-rigid Air-ship

CHAPTER XII.   A Non-rigid Balloon

CHAPTER XIII.   The Zeppelin and Gotha Raids

PART II.  AEROPLANES AND AIRMEN

CHAPTER XIV.   Early Attempts in Aviation

CHAPTER XV.   A Pioneer in Aviation

CHAPTER XVI.   The "Human Birds"

CHAPTER XVII.   The Aeroplane and the Bird

CHAPTER XVIII.   A Great British Inventor of Aeroplanes

CHAPTER XIX.   The Wright Brothers and their Secret Experiments

CHAPTER XX.   The Internal-combustion Engine

CHAPTER XXI.   The Internal-combustion Engine(Cont.)

CHAPTER XXII.   The Aeroplane Engine

CHAPTER XXIII.   A Famous British Inventor of Aviation Engines

CHAPTER XXIV.   The Wright Biplane (Camber of Planes)

CHAPTER XXV.   The Wright Biplane (Cont.)

CHAPTER XXVI.   How the Wrights launched their Biplane

CHAPTER XXVII.   The First Man to Fly in Europe

CHAPTER XXVIII.   M. Bleriot and the Monoplane

CHAPTER XXIX.   Henri Farman and the Voisin Biplane

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