PRINCIPLES OF JET PROPULSION AND GAS TURBINES by Zucrow, M. J. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

PRINCIPLES OF JET PROPULSION AND GAS TURBINES

by Zucrow, M. J.

New York, 1948: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 563 pages, $8.50

This is a fundamental engineering text on jet propulsion, with an extensive treatment of rocket motors. Some of the specific subjects covered are propulsion fundamentals, thermodynamics of gas flow, gas turbine power plants, air compressors, combustion chambers, and high temperature metallurgy.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III