The Montgolfier brothers and the invention of aviation, 1783-1784
Subtitle: with a word on the importance of ballooning for the science of heat and the art of building railroads
By: by Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.; Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799.; Aeronautics -- History.; Balloonists -- France -- Biography.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 178-179.
Includes index.