atomic space travel
ESNAULT-PELTERIE, Robert.
De la Bombe Atomique a l'Astronautique.
Genève [Geneva], Société des Arts, 1946.
French aircraft designer Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) was responsible for the Vickers R.E.P. Type Monoplane and a number of advances in engines and flight control systems. A leader in the rocketry movement, by 1913 he had already proposed nuclear powered interplanetary travel. 'In 1930, he published a book, L'Astronautique, which essentially recognized all the problems faced by designers of rockets and most of the possible solutions - the book not only defined the field, but the book's title gave it a name: astronautics' (Ashworth, Scientists of the Day, Linda Hall Library, November 17, 2007).
The present talk was given at the Société des arts de Genève on November 29, 1946, and in it Esnault-Pelterie returns to the idea of nuclear-powered space flight, discussing problems such as temperature control and reaction moderation, and proposing voyages to Venus, Mars, and Mercury.
First edition; 14-page pamphlet, wire-stitched (21 x 14 cm); a few ink corrections in the text, contents tanned; original buff wrappers printed in black, wrappers tanned, very good condition.
Stock code 116691
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De la Bombe Atomique a l'Astronautique.
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Design of a Computer. The Control Data 6600.
1970.
First edition of this important book on the first successful supercomputer, the Control Data 6600, by its developers J.E Thornton and Seymour Cray
£1,500.00
TAUBE, Mortimer.
Computers and Common Sense. The Myth of Thinking Machines.
1961.
Inscribed presentation copy of Mortimer Taube's classic critique of artificial intelligence, Computers and Common Sense, published in 1961.
£850.00
