Aeronautical Engineering

Nathan Rosenberg

Chapter 18 in Studies on Science and the Innovation Process:Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg, 2009, pp 391-402 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractAircraft design became a subject of great importance in the second decade of the twentieth century. Germany completely dominated the underlying science, the theory of aerodynamics, under the towering leadership of Ludwig Prandtl at Gottingen University. Prandtl was a professor at Gottingen from 1904 until his death in 1953. His articulation of the boundary-layer hypothesis in 1904, a hypothesis that had emerged out of his earlier interest in the flow of liquids, was to become the most fundamental concept of aerodynamic theory, a theory that was further elaborated primarily in Germany in the interwar years…

Keywords: Science and Technology; Innovation; Research Development; Medical Innovation; Economic Growth; Development; Research Policy; Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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