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Paperback • 2011 • English
By David Bloor
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Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the Germans, following Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen, relied on the tradition called “technical mechanics” t...Show more
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ISBN
9780226060958
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published year
2011
Language
English
Original title
The Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930
Format
Paperback
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