Scope and Contents Document Type: Textbook (Technical) Purpose: Training & Education Authority: Author ExpertiseScope: Textbook which details the rapid increase in technical illustration due to many factoers, especially war production. Author used his experience at Douglas Aircraft Company as a foundation. From Preface: "The widespread adoption of perspective illustration as a medium of engineering presentation has been so sudden, and its application so varied, that from many quarters a demand...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Textbook (Technical). Purpose: Training & Education. Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: Textbook on strengths of materials written by Fred B. Seely, M.S., Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois.From Preface to Second Edition: "It has been the aim in preparing the second edition to give special emphasis to the engineering significance of this subject, and not merely emphasis to mathematical methods of analysis."...

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Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Civil (authoritative reference) Document Number: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Report No. 610 [this is a 1939 reprint of the report originally published in November, 1937.

Scope: NACA research report by Eastman N. Jacobs, Robert M. Pinkerton and Harry Greenberg.

Contents: See title.

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Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Civil (authoritative reference) Document Number: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Report No. 460 [this is a 1946 reprint of the report originally published in November, 1933.

Scope: NACA research report by Eastman N. Jacobs, Kenneth E. Ward and Robert M. Pinkerton..

Contents: See title.

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Document Type: Academic Research Paper Purpose: Scholarly reference Authority: Author Expertise

Scope & Contents: Looks at ways to modify sailplanes to reduce drag.