Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation: a Contribution towards a System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments made by O and G Lilienthal

Abstract

THE interest of this book lies chiefly in the biographical part. The two Lilienthals, born in the town of Anklam, were from childhood devoted to mechanics, and also to natural history. Otto gained practical knowledge as a mechanic in the works of Schuarlzkopf in Berlin, while his brother was educated as an architect. Watching the flight of the storks which abounded about their home seems to have eiven them their first taste for the problems which afterwards occupied so much of their attention. Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation: a Contribution towards a System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments made by O. and G. Lilienthal. By Otto Lilienthal. With a biographical introduction and addendum by Gustav Lilienthal. Translated from the second edition by A. W. Isenthal. Pp. xxiv + 142 + viii plates. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.) Price 9s. net.