Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AVIATION.) Collection of unpublished reports of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 17 mimeograph or typescript reports and circulars; condition generally strong. Washington, 1920-22

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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was founded in 1915 to promote American aviation research. It was later folded in to NASA. These early technical circulars bear titles like "Description of the Klemperer Wing Strain Meter (Accelerometer)" and Umberto Nobile's "The Future of Aerial Transportation in Public Services."