A light history of hot air
By: Peter Doherty
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780522854077
Subjects: History; Miscellanea; Science; Popular works; Climatic changes
Description: From a life lived on three continents, Doherty has collected a vast repertoire of information on illumination, hot air and burning, and presented it in a narrative written with great style, intimate with stories, concerned with the world around him, and the simple beauty of science.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 274-284.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Floating in air; title: Alphabet soup; title: Life, gas and hydrocarbons; title: Soaring with eagles; title: Burnt by the sun; title: Iron horses and balladeers; title: Hearth and home; title: The iceman cometh; title: Night lights; title: Imagining the Red Baron; title: Beacons; title: Tall ships, black gangs, 'bully' wars; title: Firefighters; title: The hot air diet; title: Becks and Bleak house; title: Political hot air; title: Flying the Concorde; title: Heating the planet; title: Abbreviations, terminology and coversions.