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| Introduction: From Myth to Machine | ||
| Pt. 1 | Preparing the Way: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment | |
| Ch. 1 | Of Dreams and Desires | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Conflicting Ideas and Societies | 24 |
| Pt. 2 | Ethereal Flight: Inventing the Balloon and Airship, 1782-1900 | |
| Ch. 3 | The Astonishing Year | 47 |
| Ch. 4 | Exploiting the Balloon | 61 |
| Ch. 5 | The Quest for Steerable Flight | 81 |
| Pt. 3 | Winged Flight: Early Conceptions of the Airplane, 1792-1903 | |
| Ch. 6 | Sir George Cayley and the Birth of Aeronautics | 101 |
| Ch. 7 | The Frustrated Hopes of French Aeronautics | 120 |
| Ch. 8 | The Anglo-American School of Power and Lift | 138 |
| Pt. 4 | The Airmen Triumphant: Lilienthal, Chanute, and the Wrights, 1891-1905 | |
| Ch. 9 | The Lilienthal Legacy | 161 |
| Ch. 10 | Enter the Wrights | 178 |
| Ch. 11 | "They Done It, Done It, Damned If They Ain't Flew!" | 193 |
| Pt. 5 | Europe Resurgent, 1905-1909 | |
| Ch. 12 | "L'affaire Wright" | 213 |
| Ch. 13 | "The Flying Industry Is Already Born" | 234 |
| Ch. 14 | "The Age of Flight Is the Age We Live In" | 250 |
| Pt. 6 | Expansion, Incorporation, Maturation: Beginning the Aerial Age, 1910-1914 | |
| Ch. 15 | Global Expansion | 271 |
| Ch. 16 | The Loss of Innocence | 296 |
| Ch. 17 | Triumphs of Speed and Distance | 316 |
| Pt. 7 | Tennyson Fulfilled: Putting Prophecy into Practice, 1914 and Afterwards | |
| Ch. 18 | Into the Whirlwind | 335 |
| Ch. 19 | Grappling in the Central Blue | 349 |
| Ch. 20 | Reflections on the Beginning of the Aerial Age | 380 |
| Afterword: Technology of Light or Technology of Darkness?: Considering Flight after 9/11/01 | 405 | |
| Acknowledgments | 413 | |
| References | 415 | |
| Index | 505 |
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