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MacDonald, Terrance W.
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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
Airplanes -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century.
Airplanes -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- Flight testing -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautical engineers -- Canada -- Biography.
Aerospace engineering -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- History -- 20th century.
Inventors -- Canada -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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MacDonald, Terrance W.
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
Airplanes -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century.
Airplanes -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- Flight testing -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautical engineers -- Canada -- Biography.
Aerospace engineering -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- History -- 20th century.
Inventors -- Canada -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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Firsts
in
flight
:
Alexander
Graham
Bell
and his
innovative
airplanes
/ Terrance W. MacDonald.
by
MacDonald, Terrance W.
Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2017.
Call #:
629.1300971 B433m
Subjects
Bell
,
Alexander
Graham
, 1847-1922.
Airplanes
-- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century.
Airplanes
-- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck --
Flight
testing -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautical engineers -- Canada -- Biography.
Aerospace engineering -- Nova Scotia -- Baddeck -- History -- 20th century.
Inventors -- Canada -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781459504783 (pbk.)
Description:
96 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"
Alexander
Graham
Bell
and his team of
innovative
young engineers created groundbreaking new technologies during three years of furious activity in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in the early 1900s. The knowledge and skills of this group allowed them to innovate
flight
technologies which have continued to be fundamental to aircraft design.
Bell
's unique group of engineers, a mechanical specialist and a military officer, built over twenty
airplanes
, which incorporated many new sophisticated technological developments.
Bell
's well-known Silver Dart was only one of a long line of his team's experimental
airplanes
. The aircraft, the people, and the communities who participated with
Bell
in his mission to construct a reliable and secure flying machine. Over the years the group started to lose members, and when the Canadian government refused to purchase aircraft based on
Bell
's experiments the reconfigured group folded. Meanwhile, one group member left to found a major aircraft manufacturing operation in the US.
Bell
's team carefully documented all their work, and as a consequence there are hundreds of compelling photos from this era. The book includes 60+ of these images. Terrance W. MacDonald is also the author of The Black Box: Dead Pilots Don't Talk. He is a retired airline captain and lives in Sydney, Cape Breton.
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