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For centuries, flying was an unrealizable dream, preserved in the minds of men for millennia. Humanity first populated the heavens with gods and mystical figures capable of flying, people had colonized the lands and ventured into the seas with increasingly better results, but the sky above their heads seemed to be unattainable. Then some dreamers began to dare, inspired by the legend of Icarus, improvising wings that tried to imitate the flight of birds. From the beginning, the exploration of this new frontier caused its victims, like the Englishman Oliver who jumped from an elevated tower using a pair of wings, or the Italian Damiani some centuries later. Leonardo Da Vinci developed a series of studies of the flight of birds, projecting some interesting machines, such as the ornitopter and the first parachute. The Industrial Revolution made available to man the technology necessary to finally build a machine capable of taking flight, already in the twentieth century. It is not my intention to participate in the eternal discussion about who was the first to fly, in my humble opinion, the plane was the consequence of a long list of failures and corrections, until reaching the objective. Each of the crazy dreamers contributed to a greater or lesser degree, often sacrificing his own life, and to attribute the final result to a single person would be a great injustice to the memory of all of them. Leaving aside the origin, we can affirm that aviation has been promoted and...

I have created this book as a reference catalog for illustrators, historians, writers and for all those passionate about history. As a draftsman I have suffered many headaches and wasted too much time gathering material for the realization of certain work, its technical details, shapes, etc. For that reason I decided to organize several informative catalogs about airplanes, uniforms, tanks and ships. I hope that in this way I can facilitate the work of my colleagues, or at least have satisfied to some extent the curiosity of my reader friends.

Como ilustrador e historiador conozco la dificultad existente para encontrar material informativo de buena calidad para apoyar el trabajo de ilustradores, historiadores, escritores o simplemente para satisfacer la curiosidad de todos los apasionados por la Historia. Por ese motivo decidi organizar una serie de catalogos informativos sobre aviones, tanques, uniformes militares, vestimenta civil, armas y embarcaciones.

Durante séculos, voar foi um sonho irrealizável, preservado na imaginação dos homens por milênios. A humanidade povoou primeiro os céus com deuses e figuras místicas capazes de voar, as pessoas havia

Este livro é um catálogo dos uniformes usados pelos países participantes da Primeira Guerra Mundial, entre 1914 e 1918. Meu objetivo foi elaborar um completo guia de consulta para ilustradores, roteiristas, historiadores ou para todos aqueles que, como eu, so apaixonados pela historia mundial.

Este libro es un catálogo que reúne los uniformes de los países que participaron de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Las armas de fuego son consecuencia directa de la pólvora, invento atribuido a los chinos. Al parecer el primer uso de la pólvora registrado históricamente fue en el año 1231, durante la batalla de Kuang Fen. Los soldados chinos utilizaron la polvora como elemento propulsor para sus flechas voladoras de forma similar como hoy se usa con las cañitas voladoras. A partir de ahi la pirotecnia se convirtio en un arte, que permanece hasta nuestros dias. LAS PRIMERAS ARMAS DE FUEGO Existen contradicciones sobre el uso de la polvora en occidente, ya que Roger Bacon (Inglaterra) describio sus efectos alrededor de 1250, sin embargo los primeros registros historicamente comprobados son del año 1308, cuando aparecieron los primeros cañones, conocidos como Culebrinas y Falconetes...

Firearms are a direct consequence of gunpowder, an invention attributed to the Chinese. Apparently the first historically recorded use of gunpowder was in 1231, during the Battle of Kuang Fen. The Chinese soldiers used gunpowder as a propellant for their flying arrows in a similar way as it is used today with flying canes. From then on, pyrotechnics became an art, which remains to this day. THE FIRST FIREARMS There are contradictions about the use of gunpowder in the West, since Roger Bacon (England) described its effects around 1250. The first historically verified records are from the year 1308, when the first cannons, known as Culverin and Falconet, appeared.