Description: CHARTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE FOR AERONAUTS AND AVIATORS BY A. LAWRENCE ROTCH, S. B., A. M. Founder and Director of Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory AND ANDREW H. PALMER, A.M. Research Assistant at the Observatory FIRST EDITION FIRST THOUSAND NEW YORK JOHN WILEY AND SONS LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED 1911 INTRODUCTION ALTHougH the exploration of the air, which was begun twenty years ago in Germany and France and at Blue Hill, was undertaken for the elucidation of meteorological problems, yet much of the data obtained is of importance for the new art of aerial navigation. Accordingly, some of the information which has been gathered by the Blue Hill Observatory in the United States, and on the Atlantic Ocean through co-operation with a similar French institu-tion, is here presented in a practical form for aeronauts and aviators. The term aeronaut is used to designate the pilot of a balloon, while aviator is restricted to the pilot of a flying-machine heavier than air. Thus the work which Lieutenant Maury did fifty years ago for the surface-winds and ocean-currents is now extended into the overlying ocean of air. This is the more necessary, since the whole aerial ocean is subject to stronger commotions than even the surface of the aqueous ocean and is navigable throughout a depth equal to that of the latter. The following charts, which are believed to be the first of the kind adapted to the use of airmen, relate only to portions of the United States and the Atlantic Ocean, but they will doubtless be perfected by aerologists and extended in the near future to other parts of the globe. 1. LAWRENCE ROTCH.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: A. LAWRENCE ROTCH
Publisher: Stanhope Press
Topic: Flying
Subject: Aeronautical
