The Dynamics of Mechanical Flight: Lectures Delivered at the Imperial College of Science, and Technology; March
Sir G. Greenhill
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(Forgotten Books, June 25, 2012)
The lectures were delivered in the Imperial College of Science and Technology in March 1910 and 1911, under the title The Dynamics of Mechanical Flight, and they are given here in the form in which they were delivered. The subject was then beginning to take hold of the public imagination, consequent on Blriot sfeat of crossing the Channel on July 25, 1909, and the great strides made in the interval since in Mechanical Flight. The possibility of Human Flight has been an obsession of the imagination of Man from the earliest times recorded, for which an extensive article should be consulted in the Denkschrift der I.L.A. (der I nternationalen Luftschiffahrt A ustellung) Frankfurt, 1910, Band I, p. 118, Flugprobleme in Mijthus Sage unci Dichtnng, In the Greek Mythology, Demeter rides in a car drawn by flying dragons, and Homer describes the flight of Hera in her chariot, Iliad V., 750; and then there is the legend of I carus and his father Daedalus who taught his son the office of a fowl, and yet for all his wings the fool was drowned ;and another legend of Archytas of Tarentum, aerias tentasse domos with his invention of a flying mechanical bird. -S schylus in his Prometheus has described the arrival in a flying chariot of the chorus of the Ocean Nymphs, followed by their father Oceanus on a four-legged bird, anxious to return in a single flight from the Scythian desert and the Caucasus to beyond the Pillars of Hercules and over the A tlantic. M.F.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original forma