Author: K. N. Finne
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Igor Sikorsky, the Russian Years
Author: K. N. Finne
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Story of the Winged S
Author: Igor Sikorsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839741586
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781839741586
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Helicopter Man
Author: Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766034457
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"Read about Igor Sikorsky's life, and how he built the first successful helicopter"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766034457
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"Read about Igor Sikorsky's life, and how he built the first successful helicopter"--Provided by publisher.
The Message in the Lord's Prayer
Author: Igor Ivan Sikorsky
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839742984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Scientist, inventor, philosopher and multi-talented genius Igor Sikorsky illuminates the message in the Lord’s Prayer with simplicity and insight.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839742984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Scientist, inventor, philosopher and multi-talented genius Igor Sikorsky illuminates the message in the Lord’s Prayer with simplicity and insight.
Airplanes, Women, and Song
Author: Bois Sergievsky
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815604092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three fronts against the Bolsheviks. Coming to America in 1923, the first job he could find in New York was with a pick and shovel, digging the Holland Tunnel, but he soon joined Igor Sikorsky’s airplane company. Over the next decade as chief test pilot for the company, he tested the Sikorsky flying boats that Pan American Airways used to establish its world-wide routes, setting seventeen world aviation records along the way. Sergievsky also flew pioneering flights across unchartered African and Latin American jungles in the 1930s, flew with Charles Lindbergh, tested early helicopters and jets, and flew his own Grumman Mallard on charter flights until 1965. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815604092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three fronts against the Bolsheviks. Coming to America in 1923, the first job he could find in New York was with a pick and shovel, digging the Holland Tunnel, but he soon joined Igor Sikorsky’s airplane company. Over the next decade as chief test pilot for the company, he tested the Sikorsky flying boats that Pan American Airways used to establish its world-wide routes, setting seventeen world aviation records along the way. Sergievsky also flew pioneering flights across unchartered African and Latin American jungles in the 1930s, flew with Charles Lindbergh, tested early helicopters and jets, and flew his own Grumman Mallard on charter flights until 1965. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women.
Lonely Ideas
Author: Loren Graham
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262019795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled “Made in Russia”? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement. For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles. But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, “a new technology city.” Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262019795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled “Made in Russia”? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement. For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles. But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, “a new technology city.” Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.
Russian Motor Vehicles
Author: Maurice A. Kelly
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1787115135
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1787115135
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Imperial Russian Air Service
Author: Alex Durkota
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891268076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first comprehensive coverage of the major branches and ace pilots of the Russian Air Service in the Great War.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891268076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first comprehensive coverage of the major branches and ace pilots of the Russian Air Service in the Great War.
Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century
Author: John Greenwood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135251932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century. Presenting a comprehensive view of Russian aviation, from its genesis in the late czarist period to the present era, the approach is essentially chronological with a major emphasis on the evolution of military aviation. The contributions are diverse, with appropriate attention to civilian and institutional themes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135251932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century. Presenting a comprehensive view of Russian aviation, from its genesis in the late czarist period to the present era, the approach is essentially chronological with a major emphasis on the evolution of military aviation. The contributions are diverse, with appropriate attention to civilian and institutional themes.
The Story of the Winged-S
Author: Igor I. Sikorsky
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258163556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258163556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description