Frank Whittle
Subtitle: Invention of the Jet (Revolutions in Science)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Totem Books
Published: January 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781840466621
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Biography: general; Military - World War II; Biography And Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Jet engines; Biography/Autobiography; Science/Mathematics; History; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Aviation - History; Scientists - Inventors; Science / General; Aeronautical engineers; Biography; Great Britain
First sentence: Early in 1940, Arthur Tedder, a Royal Air Force officer, was taken to see the top-secret Whittle jet engine project.