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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Wright Brothers
David McCullough · 583 pages
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly. On a winter day in 1903, on the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, changed history. The age of flight had begun with the first heavier-than-air powered machine carrying a pilot. Far more than a coup
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909
Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen · 39 pages
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.
One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson · 557 pages
Let our favourite writer of narrative non-fiction take you back to a summer when America came of age and changed the world for ever. In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most fa
The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh · 562 pages
Fate Is the Hunter
Ernest K. Gann · 386 pages
Ernest K. Gann’s classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when flying was anything but routine. Source http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fate-is-the-Hunter/Ernest-K-Gann/9780671636036
Slide Rule
Nevil Shute · 249 pages
A fantastic story of a life in the aviation industry, including being the senior mathematician on the R100 airship in Yorkshire and a co-founder of the Airspeed aircraft company.
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Russell Freedman · 129 pages
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
Owen Gingerich · 320 pages
Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing
Tom Clancy · 331 pages
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin · 266 pages
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski · 448 pages
Traces the development of science and the discoveries that have made man unique among animal species.
Yeager: An Autobiography
Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos · 388 pages
Offers a personal glimpse of air pilot General Chuck Yeager. Yeager talks about his life and achievements, expressed in his own words.
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
John Cornwell · 560 pages
For the first three decades of the twentieth century, Germany held the premier position for science throughout the world. German scientists were the most accomplished and honored in their fields, winning the lion's share of Nobel prizes. But in 1933 came Hitler. Jewish scientists were dismissed from their positions in laboratories and at universities, and the Nazi ideology began to dominate German
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Daniel J. Boorstin · 747 pages
Tells the ongoing story of the progressive discovery by man of the nature of the observable world and universe.
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Jennet Conant · 352 pages
"In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring transatlantic mission. The British unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel · 192 pages
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailo
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim Al-Khalili · 336 pages
The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation
Quentin Reynolds
Vulcan 607
Rowland White · 523 pages
When Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands Islands in 1982, it took the British government by surprise. They needed a fast response, and military chiefs came up with a plan of action - Operation Black Buck. This is an account of the last British bomber raid, recalling the long-range attack on Port Stanley that opened the Falklands War.
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
James Hannam · 441 pages
God's Philosophers is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. --from publisher description.
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Discovery That Changed the Course of History
Thomas Hager · 326 pages
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives--including your own.At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world's scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos · 385 pages
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations
The Few: The American ""Knights of the Air"" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
Alex Kershaw · 303 pages
This book tells the never-before-told story of the American pilots -- -idealists, adventurers, romantics -- -who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. Eight young Americans joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer