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100 1 $aWinters, Nancy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100498
245 10 $aMan flies :$bthe story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, master of the balloon, conqueror of the air /$cNancy Winters.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aHopewell, N.J. :$bEcco Press,$c1998.
300 $a160 pages :$billustrations ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: London : Bloomsbury Pub., 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 160).
520 $aIt was for Alberto Santos-Dumont, who could not check his pocket watch because he was using both hands to steer a balloon, that Louis Cartier, in 1901, created the first wristwatch.
520 8 $aA renowned playboy, dining at Maxim's nightly and setting new styles in fashion, he at first frequently crashed his yellow silk airships into the trees of wealthy friends, such as the Rothschilds - who would send up champagne lunches for him to enjoy during repairs. But soon he was winning prestigious prizes and being hailed as "the conqueror of the air".
520 8 $aInternationally acclaimed as the first man to fly, he was feted for several years in Europe and America (where he was received at the White House by Teddy Roosevelt) before learning that the Wright brothers, whose early efforts had been discounted, had actually preceded him.
520 8 $aMan Flies tells the tragic, glamorous story of his career, and later illness, and of how this brilliant, colourful and eccentric pioneer slipped through the cracks of aviation history while his inventions and imagination continue to inspire it.
600 10 $aSantos-Dumont, Alberto,$d1873-1932.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063636
650 0 $aAir pilots$zBrazil$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113828
650 0 $aAir pilots$zFrance$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100942
650 0 $aAeronautics$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001337
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