The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
AIRSHIPS & BALLOONS

Lighter-Than-Air Transport in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro is very old. It may be obsolete or incorrect.

• General:
  • La navigation aérienne by Arthur Mangin [Tours: Alfred Mame, 1869]
  • Travels in the Air edited by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher [London: Bentley, 1871]
  • Relation d'un Voyage Scientifique en Ballon by Camille Flammarion and Ch. Boissay [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1873] English translation in Travels in the Air edited by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher [London: Bentley, 1871]
  • Les ballons dirigeables: Expériences de M. Henri Giffard et de M. Dupuy de Lôme by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Dentu, 1872]
  • The Catastrophe of the Zenith [American Journal of Science 9, 481 (1875)]
  • Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard by Gaston Tissandier, illustrated by Albert Tissandier [Paris: Masson, 1878] The illustrations are truly astonishing: technical drawing as a kind of proto-surrealism.
  • Observations météorologiques en ballon by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879]
  • Histoire des mes ascensions by Gaston Tissandier, illustrated by Albert Tissandier [Paris: Dreyfous, 1880]
  • Le problème de la direction des aérostats by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Le Génie Civil, 1883] Parts of this copy are unreadable.
  • La navigation aérienne by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1886]
  • La photographie en ballon by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1886] One of the most important books in the history of photography.
  • Bibliographie aéronautique: Catalogue de livres d'histoire, de science, de voyages et de fantaisie by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Launette, 1887]
  • Souvenirs et récits d'un aérostier militaire de l'Armée de la Loire, 1870-1871 by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Dreyfous, 1891] Abridged English translation: Bullets and Balloons: Escape From the Siege of Paris 1870 [HistoryNet.Com]
  • Voyages dans les airs by Gaston Tissandier [Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1891]
  • Aërial Navigation: A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aërostats, Aëroplanes, and Aëromotors by Frederick Walker [New York: Van Nostrand, 1902] Not all that technical, despite the title; one of the best books for the serious beginning student of airships to consult.
  • The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean; Airship voyages over the Polar Sea; The Past, the Present, and the Future of Aerial Navigation by Walter Wellman [New York: Keller, 1911]
  • Aëroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot [Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1915]
  • Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins by R. P. Hearne [London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1916]
  • D'Orcy's Airship Manual: An International Register of Airships with a Compendium of the Airship's Elementary Mechanics by Ladislas D'Orcy [New York: Century, 1917]
  • Zeppelins: The Past and Future by Edwin Campbell [St. Albans: Campfield, 1918]
  • Zeppelin: the Story of a Great Achievement by Harry Vissering [Chicago: Wells, no date but shortly after 1921] Biography with remarkable illustrations.
  • The Role of Technology in the Failure of the Rigid Airship as an Invention by Price Bradshaw, Jr. [University of Florida doctoral thesis, 1975]

• General: Aerodynamics:
  • The aerodynamic forces on airship hulls by Max M. Munk [No publishing data, but evidently a NACA document, after 1912]
  • The inertia coefficients of an airship in a frictionless fluid by H. Bateman [No publishing data, but evidently a NACA document, after 1921]
  • The Choice of Speed of an Airship by Max M. Munk [NACA Technical Notes 89, 1922]
  • Stresses Produced on an Airship Flying through Gusty Air by Max M. Munk [NACA Technical Notes 111, 1922]
  • Notes on Aerodynamic Forces on Airship Hulls by L. B. Tuckerman [NACA Technical Notes 129, 1923]
  • Note on the Pressure Distribution over the Hull of Elongated Airships with Circular Cross Section by Max M. Munk [NACA Technical Notes 192, 1924]
  • The Lateral Response of an Airship to Turbulence by John J. Wrobelski, Jr. [US Navy Postgraduate School master's-thesis, 1981]

• General: Aerostatics:
  • Hydrostatic tests of an airship model by Navy Yards Construction Aeronautics Staff [NACA Technical Notes 87, 1922]

• General: Misc.:
  • Surface Area Coefficients for Airship Envelopes by W. S. Diehl [NACA Technical Notes 86, 1922]
  • Some aspects of the selection of candidates for airship pilot training, U.S. Navy by William Arthur Cockell [Ohio State University master's-thesis, 1949]

• General: Non-Standard Approaches:
  • The Problem of Aerial Navigation by Barnet N. Botts [Paso Robles, Calif.: Privately published, 1894]

• General: Fiction:
  • The Zeppelin Destroyer by William Le Queux [London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916] Wartime propaganda.

• Type: DOUBLE-KEELED:
  • Principle of the Boerner Airship by A. Kapteyn [Paris: CINA, 1921]

• Type: HEATED HELIUM:
  • A heat transfer model of a heated helium airship by Ray Maurice Rapert [US Navy Postgraduate School master's-thesis, 1987]

• Aspects: BALLAST:
  • Condensation of Water from Engine Exhaust for Airship Ballasting by Robert F. Kohr [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925]

• Aspects: MOORING:
  • Analysis of the Deformation of the Mooring Spindle of the "Shenandoah" by L. B. Tuckerman and C. S. Aitchison [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925]
  • Study of Ground Handling Characteristics of a Maritime Patrol Airship NASA-CR-166253 [Akron, Ohio: Goodyear Aerospace, 1981]

• Aspects: STATIONS:
  • Large German Airship Stations by Paul(?) Sabatier [translated from L'Aéronautique, (1921 March)]

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS --- Retro