Fixing the Sky

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Fixing the Sky
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780231144124
ISBN-13 : 0231144121
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Book Synopsis Fixing the Sky by : James Rodger Fleming

Book excerpt: Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.


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