Boltzmann and the Art of Flying

Dahmen, Sílvio R.

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“…Dahmen mentions in passing the careful studies that Lilienthal (figure 6) had made of birds' wings, especially those of storks, and how he had incorporated this data into his glider design. 39 In the event, Boltzmann did not hear from Lilienthal until some time after his Vienna lecture, a delay occasioned no doubt by an incident serious enough to have been reported in Nature, 40 when the wings of the glider Lilienthal was testing collapsed at a height of 200 feet. Still, not even this mishap damped Boltzmann's enthusiasm for Lilienthal's pioneering experiments, and he may have floated-at least in conversation at Oxford-his intention of buying one of Lilienthal's gliders fitted with a suitable engine.…”

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George Hartley Bryan, Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Stability of Flight

Boyd

2012

Phys. Perspect.

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A century ago, George Hartley Bryan published his classic book, Stability in Aviation. I draw together some strands from events that awakened his interest in the nascent science of aviation, in particular the stability of flight. Prominent among those who influenced him was Ludwig Boltzmann , who held Bryan in high esteem for his contributions to thermodynamics and kinetic theory. I argue that the seeds of Bryan's interest in aviation were sown at the British Association meeting at Oxford in the summer of 1894, at which Boltzmann was guest of honor. A joint discussion between Section A (Mathematical and Physical Science) and Section G (Mechanical Science) was devoted to the problems of flight, during the course of which Boltzmann revealed a hitherto unsuspected enthusiasm for flying.

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George Hartley Bryan, Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Stability of Flight

Boyd

2012

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Sterrett¹

2017

Belgrade Philosop Ann

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In this paper, I enrich the context of Wittgenstein's Tractatus given over a decade ago in my book Witttgenstein Flies A Kite (and related earlier works dating from 2000). I've since located a sketch reprinted from a 1914 Paris magazine showing a lawyer using a model bus and dolls to depict a traffi c accident; I present it here along with a discussion of the modelmaker movement of that time. Th e modelmaker movement was a movement at the intersection of popular culture and technical expertise that really needs to be understood and recognized in discussing Wittgenstein's use of Modell and Bild. I discuss its role in relation to experimental models used in scientifi c research. Other new aspects presented here include: the very special role of model-fl ying clubs (known in Germany as Modell-Flugverein); the use of scientifi c forensics in courts of law, really just beginning then (c. 1914), and a part of popular culture as well; the signifi cance of more recent work by others on Boltzmann's personal interest in fl ight, and on the widespread but now-forgotten discussion of dimensional analysis in the history of physics. I conclude that all these lend support to the views on the Tractatus I laid out in my book, and summarize and elaborate on some of them here, inasmuch as space permits. More generally, I argue that the philosophical community interested in interpreting Wittgenstein's early works stands to gain from becoming better acquainted with the scientifi c and technological developments of the milieu in which they were conceived.

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Boltzmann and the Art of Flying

Abstract: One of the less known aspects of the work of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) is that he was an advocate of aviation, one of the most challenging technological problems at the end of the 19th century. Boltzmann followed the work of the flight pioneers

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George Hartley Bryan, Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Stability of Flight

George Hartley Bryan, Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Stability of Flight

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