prehistory of aviation
By: by Berthold Laufer, Curator of Anthropology; 12 plates in photogravure.
Series: Fieldiana -- v. 18, no. 1; Publication. Field Museum of Natural History -- 253. -- Anthropological series -- Vol. XVIII, No. 1; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- 253; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- v. 18, no. 1
Publisher: Field Museum Press
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Chicago
Subjects: Aeronautics -- History; Flying-machines
Table of contents: value: List of Plates; value: Introduction; value: The Romance of Flying in Ancient China; value: Kites as Precursors of Aeroplanes; value: The Dawn of Airships in Ancient India; value: From Babylon and Persia to the Greeks and the Arabs; value: The Air Mail of Ancient Times; value: Notes; value: Bibliographical References; value: Index.