For complaints, use another form. Study lib. Upload document Create flashcards. Flashcards Collections. Documents Last activity. Add to Add to collection s Add to saved. Data on the pre-history of the airplane industry by Peter B. Meyer1,2 Office of Productivity and Technology, U. Bureau of Labor Statistics 9 August This work is preliminary and incomplete.
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to establish a set of quantitative historical facts and their sources about the invention of the airplane and the rise of aircraft-related organizations and industries. This will support the study and analytical modeling of how an invention comes about and leads to a new industry.
The facts as presented here will have errors, omissions, and ambiguities, which can be corrected, improved, and clarified over time. Table of contents Appendix A. Early fixed-wing aircraft makers………………………………………………………………….
Key individuals in the early aircraft industry………………………………………………. Patents before ………………………………………………………………………………… Appendix E. Letters amongst these innovators…………………………………………………………… References in historical accounts……………………………………………………………… Appendix H.
What the Wrights had read before ……………………………………………………. Education levels of the experimenters and authors……………………………………. Aeronautical clubs as of ………………………………………………………………. Aeronautical journals as of …. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sources References to some sources are compressed in the following tables. The Aeronautical Directory of the World. Cailliez, Jean-Claude. Pp Chadeau, Emmanuel. Crouch, Tom. Dale, Henry. Early Flying Machines. Oxford University Press. The Flying Book, edition.
