a ISBN 1-89355-490-2

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number TL540.M227

b Item number C56 2003

a Dewey Classification 629.13/0092

a Dewey Classification B

a Personal name Ciotti Paul

a Title More with less :

b Remainder of title Paul MacCready and the dream of efficient flight /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Paul Ciotti.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc San Francisco :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Encounter Books,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2003.

a Extent 259 p. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.

a Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- 1 From Rodent-Powered Aircraft to Stratospheric Satellites -- 2 The Moral Case for Efficiency -- 3 Alpha Males and the Twilight Club -- 4 The Case against Elegant Engineering -- 5 From King Bladud to the Wright Bothers -- 6 Building Self-Confidence -- 7 The Contest at St. Yan -- 8 Midlife Crisis -- 9 Man's Innate Desire to Fly -- 10 Hang-Gliding in Southern California -- 11 The Earth-Flip Hypothesis -- 12 The Otto Lilienthal Meet -- 13 Taras Kiceniuk and Icarus Ground Effect I -- 14 How Henry Kremer Changed Paul.MacCready's Life -- 15 Lambie Luck -- 16 A Human Test Stand -- 17 Tales of the Mojave -- 18 The Shafter Connection -- 19 Reinventing the Wright Brothers -- 20 A Turn for the Better -- 21 The Case for Apparent Altruism -- 22 The Channel Crossing --23 Vikings versus the Emerald Isle -- 24 Why the British Didn't Win -- 25 Soft Energy and Lissaman's Broken Heart -- 26 How the Oil Crisis Changed the Country -- 27 Bob Boucher and the Eternal Plane -- 28 From Pointoise to "a Right Proper Piss-up" -- 29 "A Big Damn Bird Came Out of the Sky" -- 30 Biking Through the Gene Pool -- 31 Solar Deluge on the Bitumen -- 32 Electric Cars and Mental Blocks -- 33 Day of the Stratospheric Satellite -- 34 The Engineer, the Hunter and the Bear -- 35 Tao of the Carbon Dragon -- 36 Saving the World Io Percent at a Time -- 37 Doctoral Thesis Immortality -- 38 Exploding Biomimicry -- 39 Why Blind People Don't Sky Dive -- 40 The Johnny Appleseed of Ornithopters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Aeronautical engineers

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human powered aircraft

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mechanical efficiency

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002072464.html