Airplane Photography
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company 1920. First Edition. 422 pages. 8vo. Publisher's tan cloth with dark blue printed titles on spine and front panel. Soiling to the boards, light sun darkening to the spine panel. Previous owner's name internally. Signature of previous owner (H.D. Hineline) on front pastedown endpaper. Clean internally, a sound working copy. Very Good. Cloth. [24530]
Contains much on the practical aspects of aerial photography during World War I, based on interviews conducted with men from the various aerial services. Finding even passable copies of this book is difficult as it contains much of interest to the working engineer - most copies we've seen have been well used. This is a better than average example.
Ives was involved with the early development of television and was awarded "three times the Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute: in 1907, 1915 and 1919, awarded the Frederic Ives Medal from the Optical Society of America in 1937, and was recognized for his wartime work when
U. S. President Harry Truman awarded Ives the Medal for Merit in 1948 for his war-time work on blackout lighting and optical communication systems." (wiki)
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