Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958, Količina 1Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1985 - 794 strani |
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Stran 18 - ... the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions.
Stran 18 - The purpose of the committee was "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions.
Stran 101 - Discovery and invention do not spring full-grown from the brains of men. The labor of a host of men, great laboratories, long, patient, scientific experiment build up the structure of knowledge, not stone by stone, but particle by particle. This adding of fact to fact some day brings forth a revolutionary discovery, an illuminating hypothesis, a great generalization or a practical invention.
Stran 18 - Standards ; together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences...
Stran 379 - NACA research results and to control their issue as reports. (Hunsaker to members of Special Committee on Self-Propelled Guided Missiles, 25 Jan. 1945) 52. The debate over guided missiles reveals the proliferation of technical committees advising the military and supplanting the NACA. A Committee on Guided Missiles was created in Jan. 1945 by the Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Research and Development Board, which replaced the Office of Scientific...
Stran 386 - ... National Aeronautics and Space Act: A Study of the Development of Public Policy (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1962); Enid Curtis Bok Schoettle. "The Establishment of NASA," in Sanford Lakoff, (ed,.) Knowledge and Power: Essays on Science and Government (New York: Free Press, 1966), pp. 162-270, and Mary Stone Ambrose, "The National Space Program, Phase I: Passage of the 'National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958,' " MA thesis, American University, 1960.
Stran 387 - It seems clear to us that these discussions have degenerated into a bureaucratic struggle for survival as a "space" agency on the part of ARPA. The [Defense] Secretary's main problem seems to be to get a settlement that will keep ARPA happy. The position Dr. York keeps taking makes it unlikely that ARPA will be satisfied unless they get everything they wanted in the first place. 39. Robert Rosholt, An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963 (NASA SP-4101; Washington, 1966), pp. 37-48. 40. See Alex...
Stran 110 - for the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year.
Stran 354 - R&D funds, see A. Hunter Dupree, Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities to 1940 (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957), p.
Stran 342 - Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics; and Edward P.