Bringing Aerodynamics to America

by Theodore von Karman and Paul A. Hanle

The Wright brothers achieved powered flight in 1903, but in the years immediately following the major contributions to aerodynamic theory were made by German scientists. The mathematician Felix Klein established an institute for applied mechanics at Gottingen University for the interdisciplinary investigation of technical problems through rigorous scientific analysis. The first director of this institute was Ludwig Prandtl, one of the creators of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262081148
• ISBN13: 9780262081146
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 224 Pages