By Rocketship Into the Universe / From Fire Wagon to Space Ship (1928)

 

An adult space book this week. I picked up a copy of By Rocketship Into the Universe / From Fire Wagon to Space Ship a few weeks ago. This is an early book about spaceflight and rockets written in Germany by Otto Willi Gail. I do not read German but wanted to share some of the wonderful illustrations within. At the end of July I will post his children's book derived from these ideas  By Rocket to The Moon (1931 English translation)

Mit Raketenkraft ins Wentanall / Vom Feuerwagen Zum Raumschiff. (By Rocketship Into the Universe / From Fire Wagon to Space Ship.) Otto Willi Gail. Stuttgard, 106 p. 1928.

A Trip to Polaris: Or 264 trillion miles in an Aeroplane (1923)

Just a very quick (and short) one today. 

Muir, Charles S. A Trip to Polaris: Or 264 trillion miles in an Aeroplane.  Washington, D.C. : The Polaris Company. 63 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.  1923.

Evidently it also went with a game: "Polaris or the great 264 trillion mile aeroplane race." 
Also not many illustrations of interest, except this one:

The text is interesting as another of those early non-fiction children's books trying to teach about space.

Of course it was all a dream....