TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloor,David
TI  - The enigma of the aerofoil : rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930 
SN  - 9780226060958 (PB)
U1  - 76-25 BLO 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chicago , London 
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Aerodynamics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mathematicians versus practical men: the founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -- The air as an ideal fluid: classical hydrodynamics and the foundations of aerodynamics -- Early British work on lift and drag: Rayleigh flow versus the aerodynamics of intuition -- Lanchester's cyclic theory of lift and its early reception -- Two traditions: mathematical physics and technical mechanics -- Technische Mechanik in action: Kutta's arc and the Joukowsky wing -- The finite wing: Ludwig Prandtl and the Göttingen school -- '"We have nothing to learn from the Hun": realization dawns -- The laws of Prandtl and the laws of nature -- Pessimism, positivism, and relativism: aerodynamic knowledge in context
ER  -