Airship Patents: A Collection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781410224934)

The airship should solve the problems of speed (it is significantly faster than a tractor and trailer combination); capacity (it could easily be designed to carry a high-density load equivalent to the capacity of several freight cars); economy (its fuel consumption is negligible as compared to that of conventional aircraft); and flexibility (it could allow cargo to be loaded and unloaded in undeveloped areas that are served by nothing more than the equivalent of a pack-trail or logging road). What we are talking about, of course, is the dirigible, or airship. This collection of relatively recent airship patents provides a great deal of inspiration to the designer and inventor. Patents are organized by issue date, which gives a quick chronological view of technical developments in airships.

Author: Sergei Mikhail Tolstoi
ISBN-10: 1410224937
ISBN-13: 9781410224934
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2005
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.59lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.06d