Engines and Innovation

This book is an institutional history of the NASA Lewis Research Center, located in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1940, when Congress authorized funding for a third laboratory for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, through the 1980s. The history of the laboratory is discussed in relation to the development of American propulsion technology, with particular focus on the transition in the 1940s from the use of piston engines in airplanes to jet propulsion and that from air-breathing engines to rocket technology when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established in 1958. The personalities and research philosophies of the people who shaped the history of the laboratory are discussed, as is the relationship of Lewis Research Center to the Case Institute of Technology

Aeronautics · Manufacturing engineering · Propulsion · Aerospace Engineering · Engineering · History and Developments in Astronomy · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

• Urgency, uncertainty, and innovation

  Philip Scranton•Management & Organizational History•2006

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• Computers Take Flight

  William Elliott, James E Tomayko•The Journal of Military History•2000

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• Nasa History and the Challenge of Keeping the Contemporary Past

  Roger D Launius•The Public Historian•1999

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