Dictionary making by conference and committee: NACA and the American Aeronautical Language, 1916–1934

Gerald Johns

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984, vol. 35, issue 2, 75-81

Abstract: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics issued seven reports on aeronautical nomenclature between 1916 and 1934. A lively American aeronautical language was being used in almost every report, technical note, or memorandum NACA issued except in those seven entitled Nomenclature for Aeronautics. The committees and conferences of NACA, interested in asserting authority in aeronautical matters, never approached flight terminology by surveying the words they chose; they prescribed the terms usually without correctly describing them. Because they appeared authoritative, NACA's definitions were in many dictionaries, but they were almost always augmented by additional entries more apt and applicable to the growing American aeronautical language of the 1920s and the 1930s.

Date: 1984
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