| American Society of Naval Engineers - Marine engineering - 1912 - 1696 pages
...last two years are of great value ; the work done by the Committee — described as " the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution" — has been accompanied and supplemented by research and experiment carried out by the Director of... | |
| Education - 1918 - 892 pages
...compensation. The duties of the committee, as provided by Congress, are 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... | |
| National Academy of Sciences - Biography & Autobiography - 1976 - 408 pages
...National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA, now NASA), which was "to supervise and direct scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical u> • solution." President Wilson appointed Durand as one of the five civilian §O "C ^ 0 CD members... | |
| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1911 - 410 pages
...of research." The Committee in its Report admirably defines its duties as embracing " the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution." Little need be said regarding the constitution of the Committee. Lord Rayleigh, the Chairman, with... | |
| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1911 - 428 pages
...of research." The Committee in ita Report admirably defines its duties as embracing "the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution." Little need be said regarding the constitution of the Committee. Lord Rayleigh, the Chairman, with... | |
| Mathematics - 1913 - 600 pages
...last two years are of great value ; the work done by the Committee — described as " the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution" — has been accompanied and supplemented by research and experiment carried out by the Director of... | |
| Mathematics - 1913 - 503 pages
...last two years are of great value ; the work done by the Committee — described as " the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution " — has been accompanied and supplemented by research and experiment carried out by the Director... | |
| United States - 1915 - 558 pages
...experimental methods of research. The work desired thus falls into three sections: (1) The scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution. (2) Research and experiment into these subjects in a properly equipped laboratory with a trained staff.... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1915 - 744 pages
...be the duty of the Advis Committee for Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their s< tion and their... | |
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