Lot 185
  • 185

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich.

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Description

  • Prostoye ucheniye o vozdushnom' korable i ego postroyenii [Basic instructions on the construction of airships]. Kaluga: the author, 1904, 8vo (255 x 171mm.), 3 folding plates, original printed wrapper, slightly browned and chipped at edges, upper wrapper detached
Zametka spetsialistov' o proyekte K.E. Tsiolkovskogo [Remarks of the specialists on a project by K.E. Tsiolkovsky]. (Kaluga, 1904), 4to (268 x 217mm.), 4pp., without wrapper as issued, centre crease



Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich. 1. Dopolnitel'nyye technicheskiye dannyye k postroyeniyu metallicheskoi obolochki dirizhablya bez' dorogoi verfi. 2. Otzyv Ledentsovskago obshchestva o moem dirizhable [1. Additional technical data on the design of the dirigible's metal shell requiring no expensive dock. 2. The Ledentsov Society's assessment of my dirigible]. Kaluga: S.A. Semenov for the author, 1915, 8vo (259 x 175mm.), 10pp., illustrations, original printed illustrated green wrapper, cover slightly faded



Ibid. Otkliki literaturnyye [Reviews]. Kaluga: for the author, 1928, 8vo (170 x 126mm.), 40pp., illustrations and folding plate, original printed wrapper



Ibid. Moya pishushchaya mashina. Dvigateli progressa. Novoye o moyem dirizhable. Melochi [My typewriter. Innovators. New information about my dirigible. Trivia]. Kaluga: the author, 1928, 8vo (175 x 130mm.), 27pp., 2 plates, original printed wrapper



Ibid. Proyekt metallicheskogo dirizhablya na 40 chelovek [The project of the metal dirigible for forty persons]. Kaluga, 1930, 8vo (169 x 132mm.), illustrations, original printed wrapper, Moscow address and a Russian stamp on lower cover, wrapper worn



together 6 volumes

Catalogue Note

The article defending Tsiolkovsky's theory of an all-metal airship that could expand and contract was drawn up by a group of scientists and engineers in Kaluga, but it did not help promote Tsiolkovsky's research.