Conquer the Sky: Great Moments in Aviation

by Harold Rabinowitz

Since the dawn of civilization, human beings have dreamed of achieving flight. By the late nineteenth century, those dreams became reality, and today the technology has enabled humans to reach for the stars. "Conquer the Great Moments in Aviation", written by a veteran science and technology editor and illustrated with more than four hundred images from renowned Bettmann Photo Archive - many of them rarely seen in print before - traces the history of human-kind's attempts to shrug off the shackles of gravity and take to the air.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

Harold Rabinowitz is director of the book packaging firm, The Reference Works, & has served as executive editor of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology & science editor of the Encyclopedia Americana. He is the author of books on aviation, on the Old West, & on Judaica. He lives with his family & library in Riverdale, New York.