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Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer by Nevil Shute - 1988

by Nevil Shute

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Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer by Nevil Shute - 1988

Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer

by Nevil Shute

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Toronto: General, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. GOOD+. Front cover has a bit of scuffing damage and a small stain to inside surface. Pages are slightly tanned. Spine is not creased. No writing/highlighting. Binding is sound and tight. 222 pages. Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and Nevil Shute as his pen name. -- Ships in custom-fit cardboard box. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
  • Bookseller Irolita Books CA (CA)
  • Format/Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Book Condition Used - GOOD+
  • Binding Paperback
  • ISBN 10 0773671633
  • ISBN 13 9780773671638
  • Publisher General
  • Place of Publication Toronto
  • Date Published 1988
  • Pages 222
  • Keywords Aviation, Military History, Engineering, Aeronautics, WWII,

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Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer

Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer

by Nevil Shute

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General, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Other than minor spine curl this is a clean, tight and unmarked copy-Nevil Shute best describes this autobiography in his own words: "Most of my adult life, perhaps all the worthwhile part of it, has been spent messing about with airplanes. For 30 years there was a period when airplanes would fly when you wanted them to, but there were still fresh things to be learned on every flight, a period when airplanes were small and so easily built that experiments were cheap and new designs could fly within six months of the first glimmer in the mind of the designer. "That halcyon period started about 1910 and it was in full flower after WW I when I was a young man; it died with WW II when airplanes had grown too costly and too complicated for individuals to build or even to operate. I count myself lucky that fleeting period coincided with my youth and my young manhood, and that I had a part in it.
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