My airships : the story of my life /
Autobiography and history of the airships that Alberto Santos-Dumont invented.
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New York :
Dover Publications,
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory fable, The reasoning of children
- The coffee plantation
- Paris: professional balloonists, automobiles
- My first balloon ascent
- My "Brazil," smallest spherical balloons
- The real and the imaginary dangers of ballooning
- I yield to the steerable balloon idea
- My first airship cruises (1898)
- How it feels to navigate the air
- Explosive engines and inflammable gases
- I go in for airship building
- The Exposition summer
- The Deutsch Prize and its problems
- A fall before a rise
- The building of my "No. 6"
- Winning the Deutsch Prize
- A glance backward and forward
- Monaco and the maritime guide rope
- Flights in the Mediterranean winds
- Speed
- An accident and its lessons
- The first of the world's airship stations
- My "No. 9," the Little Runabout
- The airship in war
- Paris as a center of airship experiments
- Concluding fable, More reasoning of children.