A presentation copy, inscribed on the half title page of volume one ‘à Mr. James, ingénieur, Cordialement offert par G.Eiffel’. Text first published, with diagrams, as an extract from the “Mémoires de la Société des ingénieurs civils”, juillet 1912.
‘Eiffel’s long and successful career brought him considerable wealth, and late in his life he decided to invest in the newly emerging field of aeronautics. At the age when many people retire, Eiffel built and operated some of the finest aeronautical research tools of his day using his own funds. In 1909, at the foot of his famous tower, Gustave Eiffel built one of the first wind tunnels dedicated to a new science: Aerodynamics. In 1912, the wind tunnel was moved to Auteuil, in Paris, where it is still in operation. He gathered data systematically setting new standards for measurement accuracy. His wind tunnels and methods served as models for subsequent laboratories around the world’. (Scientific Technical Review 2012).
A fine copy, both dust jackets nicked and torn at the head and tail of the spine and the corners with one small repair, scuff mark on the Atlas volume dust jacket from the removal of a label, duplicate plate 39 loose, frontispiece offset to the title page.
