Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight [Audiobook] download free by Paul Hoffman
- Listen audiobook: Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
- Author: Paul Hoffman
- Release date: 2003/9/28
- Publisher: THEIA
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780786866595
- Rating: 7.6 of 10
- Votes: 570
- Review by: Aarav Hudgens
- Review rating: 8.92 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/28
- Duration: 4H43M30S in 256 kbps (73.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG4, AAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG-4 SLS, WMA (compression DMG, ZIP, TAR.BZ2, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 369
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M38S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: On the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the other man who was once hailed worldwide as the conqueror of the air-Alberto Santos-Dumont. Because the Wright brothers worked in secrecy, word of their first flights had not reached Europe when Santos-Dumont took to the skies in 1906. The dashing, impeccably dressed inventor entertained Paris with his airborne antics-barhopping in a little dirigible that he tied to lampposts, circling above crowds around the Eiffel Tower, and crashing into rooftops. A man celebrated, even pursued by the press in Paris, London, and New York, Santos-Dumont dined regularly with the Cartiers, the Rothschilds, and the Roosevelts. But beneath his lively public exterior, Santos-Dumont was a frenzied genius tortured by the weight of his own creation. Wings of Madness chronicles the science and history of early aviation and offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary and tormented man, vividly depicting the sights and sounds of turn-of-the-century Paris. It is a book that will do for aviation what The Man Who Loved Only Numbers did for mathematics.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Aircraft, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, History Of Engineering & Technology
- Download servers: Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Torrent, CloudBuckIt, Teamplace, FreakShare. Compressed in DMG, ZIP, TAR.BZ2, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 36.75 USD
- Dimensions: 158x236x34mm
- Weight: 703g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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