Project Gutenberg 2014-04-07 Public domain in the USA. 72 Maxim, Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens) 1840 1916 32005194 Artificial and Natural Flight Produced by Charlene Taylor, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Artificial and Natural Flight" by Hiram S. Maxim is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work delves into the principles and experimental findings related to aeronautics, specifically focusing on the mechanics of flight, both artificial and natural. The book emphasizes the author's research and thoughts on flying machines, including the physics of flight, the study of air currents, and the mechanics of screws used in aeronautical design. At the start of the book, Maxim reflects on his lifelong fascination with flight, shaped significantly by conversations with his father, who had conceptualized a flying machine decades before. He discusses the evolution of his ideas, experiments, and personal observations that led him to conclude the best configurations for flight mechanisms—specifically, the need for effective screw propellers and aeroplanes. He challenges prevailing mathematical formulas used by contemporaries, asserting that his experimental data provides clearer insight into the principles of flight. Overall, this introductory portion sets the stage for a detailed exploration of aeronautical design and the underlying science of flight. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45344/45344-h/images/cover.jpg en Airplanes Aeronautics Flight TL Text Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: Science - General 475996 476019 2024-09-19T05:42:39.775182 2023-09-19T16:52:13.072108 text/html text/html 470383 2014-04-07T11:48:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 4836338 2014-04-07T11:48:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 5116052 2024-09-19T05:42:56.250998 application/epub+zip 5118334 2024-09-19T05:42:44.822092 application/epub+zip 207530 2024-09-19T05:42:40.806089 application/epub+zip 6109497 2024-09-19T05:43:01.764970 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5968713 2024-09-19T05:42:51.885055 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291119 2022-09-20T17:12:45.076864 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 334705 2024-09-19T05:42:37.750088 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 335314 2014-04-07T11:48:32 text/plain; charset=utf-8 110668 2014-04-07T11:48:56 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 333624 2014-04-07T11:48:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 110386 2014-04-07T11:48:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 333799 2014-04-07T11:48:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 110263 2014-04-07T11:48:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21711 2024-09-19T05:43:01.927967 application/rdf+xml 13295 2024-09-19T05:42:40.976070 image/jpeg 1849 2024-09-19T05:42:40.892068 image/jpeg 4841250 2024-09-19T05:42:40.093109 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog