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Aircraft propulsion and gas turbine engines

Part I Aero Engines and Gas Turbines Chapter 1 History and Classifications of Aero Engines . . . 3 1.1 Prejet Engines-History 4 1.1.1 Early Activities in Egypt and China 4 1.1.2 Leonardo da Vinci . .. ... .5 1.1.3 Branca's Stamping Mill . . . 5 1.1.4 Newton's SteamWagon . . . 6 1.1.5 Barber's Gas Turbine . .. 6 1.1.6 Miscellaneous Aero-Vehicles'Activities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries . .. . 7 1.1.7 TheWright Brothers . .. . 8 1.1.8 Significant Events up to 1940s . .. 10 1.1.8.1 Aero-Vehicle Activities . . 10 1.1.8.2 Reciprocating Engines . . . 12 1.2.

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