Jet engines -- Design and construction
Subject
Subject Source: World Cat Fast Authority File
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft (Fourth Edition), 1946, 1946
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 118, Call No.: TL 709 .S648 1946
Identifier: 20180014
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Technical Reference).
Purpose: Informational.
Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: The fourth edition of a technical monograph written for an educated audience by G. Geoffrey Smith, M.B.E., editor of Flight magazine, the leading aeronautical journal in Great Britain.Contents:
"Preface by General Carl Spaatz, Commanding General, Army Air Forces This Book should do much to stimulate interest in the new field of jet propulsion. Mr....
Dates:
Copyright: 1946; Publication: 1946
Jet: The Story of a Pioneer, 1954
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 210, Call No.: TL 540 .W48 A3 1954
Identifier: 20180008
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Historical Study).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from the Preface): "This book is not an autobiography. It is primarily the history I of my association with the development of the turbo-jet engine in Great Britain. I have included a very brief account of my life prior to my practical work on the turbo-jet engine, in order that the reader may have some idea of the nature of the soil in which the seed of an...
Dates:
Publication: 1954