Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071GPY88X |
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| Number of Pages | : | 458 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Andrew Nahum is Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the Science Museum in London and a Visiting Research Tutor in Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art.
Birth of The Jet Turbine Mark J. Motley Einsteins qoute about Genius being 10 percent inspiration & 90 percent perspiration fits this story so well. Support and Funding for the Jet Turbine flowed like the tide, as time slipped by during World War 2. Well written with a full cast of players from history. Thanks. "Worst book ever" according to Robert Thomas. Terrible book. All politics and no info on technical development of the jet engine.. "Dispelling the Whittle myths" according to Peter Louw. Those readers who have believed that Frank Whittle invented the jet engine may be in for a surprise. Andrew Nahum's incisive book, Frank Whittle - Invention of the Jet, aims to dispel the myths surrounding this topic and Whittle's role in it.As with so many important inventions, the development of the jet engine was to a large extent driven by the necessities of war. Particularly the British, Germans and Americans worked feverishly to produce a war-winning jet fighter during the Second World War, but the Germans won this particular arms race by being t
Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved.. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light ‘to build a jet engine’ at a time when to do so made little sense. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. the state, and an idea that would change the world. The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs
Andrew Nahum is Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the Science Museum in London and a Visiting Research Tutor in Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art.