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Film, Video Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers

Event video

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Title

  • Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers

Summary

  • Smithsonian curator and historian Tom D. Crouch discussed his new book, "Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers: A History of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and What Came Before," in a program sponsored by the Library's Center for the Book. "Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers" is an account of the significant contributions the AIAA and its predecessor organizations have made to the evolution of flight. It covers the story of visionary individuals and dedicated engineers who changed society. The book traces the early struggles to create and distinguish aeronautics as a distinct profession, through the technological advances brought on by two world wars and the advances spawned by the Space Age.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2006-04-25.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Science, Technology
  • -  Technology, Industry

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Classification: Technology.
  • -  Tom Crouch.
  • -  Recorded on 2006-04-25.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687755

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-25, 2006. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687755/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2006) Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-25. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687755/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-25, 2006. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687755/>.