Aeronautical History Collection of Col. Richard Gimbel, 2700 B.C.E.-1999.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Aeronautical History Collection of Col. Richard Gimbel, 2700 B.C.E.-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/744462298

A very diverse collection of 20,000 items that trace the story of flight from Babylonian cuneiforms to the Wright Brothers. Included are five thousand year-old seals carved from semiprecious stones and used to inscribe clay tablets that record the earliest conception of flight. Rare coins and medals commemorate great aviators and their achievements. Among the collection's thousands of books are volumes printed before 1501 and items which discuss all aspects of aviation, including experiments with wings, balloon ascents, first parachutes, rocketry, and accounts of historic flights. More than 2,000 prints, portraits, engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs create a unique pictorial history of aeronautics. Important letters written by pioneers of flight are also to be found in the collection's manuscript holdings. Additionally, there are also rare commemorative medallions, sheet music, posters, dime novels, postcards and postage stamps, early flight manuals, catalogues of aircraft equipment, match boxes, and children's games and toys.

ca. 20,000 items

US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8117424

US Air Force Academy, McDermott Library

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63p2wc3 (person)

Wilbur Wright, born April 16, 1867 in Indiana, and his brother, Orville, were inventors of the airplane. The brothers were in the printing and bicycle business in Dayton before they became interested in solving the problems of powered flight. After a series of kite and glider experiments at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the brothers built and successfully flew the first heavier-than-air powered machine on Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights spent the next years improving their invention and in 1909, formed a company...

Wright, Orville, 1871-1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c35pcc (person)

Orville Wright was a pioneer aviator. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug 19, 1871. He was a son of Bishop Milton and Susan Catherine (Koerner) Wright. In 1903, with his brother Wilbur Wright, he devoted much of his time to Wright Brothers' flying machine. He died on January 30, 1948, in Dayon, Ohio....

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h52h4z (person)

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

Wright, Milton, 1828-1917

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w12dc (person)

Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67d5h5g (person)

Garnerin, André Jacques, 1769-1823

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v99f2c (person)

Wise, John, 1808-1879

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68s93v3 (person)

Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68w409t (person)

Charles, Jacques Alexandre César 1746-1823

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pg3hm8 (person)

Gimbel, Richard, Dr.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g4j8c (person)

Edgar Allan Poe published many works of fiction, including The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), and Tales by Edgar A. Poe (1845). His most famous work, "The Raven," was published in 1845. He was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, the second child of actors Eliza Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr. After his father abandoned the family and his mother died in 1811, Edgar was taken in by John and Frances (Fanny) Allan. In 1815, Poe accompanied John and ...

United States Air Force Academy. Library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f3qgz (corporateBody)

Gimbel, Richard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c565kx (person)

Richard Gimbel was born in 1898 the son of one of the founders of the Gimbel's department store chain. He studied in Europe and received a bachelor's degree at Yale in 1920. He joined the family business, but in 1935, he left the Gimbel Brothers and started his own chain of department stores called "Richard's." He also turned his attention to flying, became a pilot, bought an airplane, and started collecting. Initially, he satisfied his literary tastes, amassing large collections of the works of...

Robert, Nicholas Louis 1761-1828.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b4hs5 (person)

Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François 1754-1785

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv69bf (person)

United States Air Force Academy. Library. Friends

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61306ck (corporateBody)

Montgolfier, Joseph-Michael, 1740-1810.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p91scz (person)

Green, Charles, 1785-1870

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj48bs (person)

Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v708bs (person)