1909 Aerial Warfare

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-six, and numerous in-text illustrations. With a half-title. This work is an octavo. Collated, complete. A fascinating look at the quick development of aeronautics at the turn of the twentieth century. This work discusses the possible use of aeroplanes and other flying machines in warfare. This book was published just a few years before the outbreak of the First World War, during which some aeroplanes were indeed used in warfare. This was the first work on aerial warfare to be published for the public, other works before this having been limited to the military. At the time this work was published, aeroplanes were still a very new phenomena, with the first successful manned flight taking place in 1903. Written by R. P. Hearne, who also wrote 'Zeppelins and Super-Zeppelins', and was a motoring journalist. With an introduction by Hiram Maxim, an inventor who is best known for his creation of the first portable automatic machine gun. The first edition of Hearne's work on aeronautics. From the library of the Irish international hot air balloonist Wilf Woollett.