Gyro! The Life and Times of Lawrence Sperry
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. Tall ocatvo, navy-blue hardcover, spine embossed with rose-gold lettering, xi, 348 pp., frontispiece, four black-and-white plates, eight double-sided black-and-white plates, pp. 283-348 detail the patents of Lawrence Sperry. Spine ends a little bumped, spotting on edges of text block, very light foxing on leaf edges throughout, dust-jacket a little worn and spine faded; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. An entertaining biography of the extraordinary Lawrence Sperry, mechanical genius and pilot, who built his first full-sized glider as a teenager. Sperry went on to invent numerous aviation technologies, many still in use today, and to wow the people of New York with loop-de-loops over the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1920s. Item #4480
Price (AUD): $55.00