Dr. Tom Crouch: Lighter-Than-Air - A History of Balloons and Airships
Dr. Tom Crouch
"Lighter-Than-Air:A History of Balloons and Airships"
Dr. Tom Crouch, acclaimed authority on the history of flight, is Senior Curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian National Air and SpaceMuseum. The author of five books on the Wright Brothers, his The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright, received the 1989 Christopher Award, lauded for “artistic achievement in support of the highest values of the human spirit.” In 2009 he published Lighter Than Air, a comprehensive illustrated history of balloons and airships, focusing on the people, flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels, intrepid balloonists and peripatetic aeronauts, crossing continents and oceans, providing scientific discovery and reconnaissance.www.si.edu/ofg/Staffhp/CrouchT.htm
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