The House of Lyme: From Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century. E-book. Formato PDF Evelyn Caroline Bromley   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The idea of writing the history of this wonderful old house and its owners came to me after the discovery which I made some years ago of a large quantity of papers tied up in bundles labelled Old Letters in a fireproof cupboard, the existence of which was unknown or had been forgotten. The letters were arranged in no sort of order or sequence, and although they had evidently been examined after a fashion, they had lain where I found them for upwards of forty years. Many of them were almost undecipherable from damp, much of the paper had been gnawed by rats or mice and occasionally, as I untied the bundles, the contents fell to pieces in my hands. I was then unfamiliar with Court hand, consequently many of the letters were quite unintelligible to me, but with patience and a certain amount of wear and tear of eyesight, I mastered the difficulties of Elizabethan writing until I found it as easy to read as that of the present day. It took me many months of work to sort out and classify these letters, and to arrange them chronologically, and then I began the even longer task of copying. I have done this almost entirely with my own hand as I found copyists inaccurate, and the amount of time and patience required for the work could, I felt, only be given by some one as deeply interested in the letters as I was myself. The writing was so faint as to be often almost illegible, and it took me sometimes half an hour, using a strong magnifying glass, to decipher a single word.

A History of Aeronautics. E-book. Formato PDF Evelyn Charles Vivian   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

Although successful heavier-than-air flight is less than two decades old, and successful dirigible propulsion antedates it by a very short period, the mass of experiment and accomplishment renders any one-volume history of the subject a matter of selection. In addition to the restrictions imposed by space limits, the material for compilation is fragmentary, and, in many cases, scattered through periodical and other publications. Hitherto, there has been no attempt at furnishing a detailed account of how the aeroplane and the dirigible of to-day came to being, but each author who has treated the subject has devoted his attention to some special phase or section. The principal exception to this rule—Hildebrandt—wrote in 1906, and a good many of his statements are inaccurate, especially with regard to heavier-than-air experiment. If you like statistics, such as volume, diameter, length etc. of dirigibles, for example, go for it. Apparently this book was written around 1920. The author did not cover the great law suit concerning the Wright brother's patent claim that stymied airplane development for some time. You would be better off reading a biography on Edison or Curtis that covers their attempt to prove that Leland could have flown before the Wright brothers barring an accident during their launch. The author believed that aeroplanes would never be a commercial success, but dirigibles would. The author repeated events often.