Pre-Owned Dirigible Dreams : The Age of the Airship (Hardcover) 9781611685602

from 5hrdrive

It's always a delight to read one of these "little" history books, the kind that cover a small cross section of the past in brilliant detail. I for one have always been fascinated by 18th and early 19th-century technology - the "steampunk" or Jules Verne stuff if you will - from the telegraph to ...

from tnilsson

I was somewhat ambivalent when I picked up Dirigible Dreams: The Age of the Airship, by C. Michael Hiam. The cover illustration didn't appeal to me and a book on the history of dirigibles sounded like it could either be really interesting or really boring, depending on the skills of the author. B...

from DarthDeverell

On the surface, C. Michael Hiam's Dirigible Dreams: The Age of the Airship, is a well-written and structured history of a fascinating subject, but the reader will discover it is so much more by the time they finish the first chapter. Hiam is enraptured by his subject and readers will soon underst...

from nmele

An engagingly told history of powered lighter-than-air shifts, this book begins with the Hindenburg disaster, but then moves back some fifty years to trace the development of powered airships in Europe and North America. The author keeps things moving but is surprisingly comprehensive in his acco...

from stuart10er

Actually quite an interesting book about the quite short quest for dirigible (or steerable) balloons. Pretty much late 19th century through WWII and that's about it. Around 80 years of history. It is amazing how little the physics was understood and yet people kept building and getting in them. T...