![[Item #57810] Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight. Part I. 1887 to 1890. Part II. 1897 to 1903. Samuel Pierpont LANGLEY, Charles M. Manly.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57810.jpg?auto=webp&v=1649112825)
Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight. Part I. 1887 to 1890. Part II. 1897 to 1903.
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1911. First Edition. First edition. Folio (32.5cm). Rebound in modern half blue buckam, blue cloth over boards, gilt titles to front and spine, original paper front cover bound in at rear; modern endpapers; [xii],320pp; 104 plates, including both diagrams and half-tone photographs. Ex-library Yale University Museum, with stamps to t.p., front wrapper, and text. A straight, sturdy copy, some spotting to top edge, minor toning to text leaves but plates clean and bright: Very Good.
A chronicle of Langley and Manly's work on the Great Aerodrome, an experimental manned flying machine. Though it failed two flying tests in 1903, work on the Aerodrom helped Manley develop the Manly-Balzer engine, the first purpose-designed aircraft engine. Langley was also the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Vol. 27, No. 3.
Price: $300.00
