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9780894640391
The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature
by Ron Miller
by Ron Miller
About this item
- Condition: Very Good
- Provider: SequiturBooks Contact
- Provider Rating: 91%
- Ships From: Boonsboro, MD
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- Comments: Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780894640391
- ISBN: 0894640399
- Publication Date: 1993
- Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
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SUMMARY
There are 250,000 words of text listing events chronologically, illustrated with scale drawings of hundreds of spacecraft, both real & fictional. The artwork, drawings, & photos include unique images from rare books, novels & films, exclusive drawings of Soviet spacecraft & unpublished photos from NASA archives. The book is divided into six parts: (1) the archaeology of the spaceship (360 B.C. to 1783 A.D.), (2) the invention of the spaceship (1784-1899), (3) the experimenters (1900-1938), (4) World War II, (5) the golden age of the spaceship (1946-1960), (6) the dawn of the space age (1961 to the present). A bibliography & index are included.Ron Miller is the author of 'The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature', published 1993 under ISBN 9780894640391 and ISBN 0894640399.
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