{"id":455,"date":"2012-10-08T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=455"},"modified":"2012-10-08T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:45:46","slug":"sleuthing-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2012\/10\/08\/sleuthing-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleuthing in the library"},"content":{"rendered":"

The case:\u00a0 Identify a book discussing building and flying model aeroplanes.\u00a0 The information and drawings in the book refer to tractor monoplanes and strip rubber, and doesn\u2019t make any mention of balsa wood.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the cover and title pages are missing so other than obvious age, there is little information to go on.\u00a0 The only information, really, is a preface note which says the author is well-known in the modeling world, and the words \u201cModel Aeroplanes\u201d appearing on every other page.<\/p>\n

\"Preface<\/a>\"Pages<\/a><\/p>\n

Pictures: The editor\u2019s preface and pages 14 and 15 of the mystery book, as sent to the museum staff by the researcher.\u00a0 Photographs are used with permission.<\/p>\n

The client: A retired air traffic controller and longtime aircraft modeler from Australia.<\/p>\n

The search: Using \u201cModel Aeroplanes\u201d as the starting point, I searched the museum\u2019s library database for books with that phrase in the title.\u00a0 Several turned up.\u00a0 Luckily, it was the work of only a few minutes to find a book that matched the preface and other pages of the mystery book.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>\"Pages<\/a><\/p>\n

Pictures:\u00a0 The editor\u2019s preface and pages 14 and 15 of the book found in the museum\u2019s library.<\/p>\n

The result: The mystery book is:\u00a0 Model Aeroplanes: The Building of Model Monoplanes, Biplanes, etc., together with a Chapter on Building a Model Airship<\/em> by F.J. Camm.\u00a0 Although there is no publication date given in the book, some internet searches turned up results that suggest that the book was published around 1919 or 1920<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 A British book published in London by Cassell, it was also published in the United States through Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York.<\/p>\n

\"Cover<\/a>\"Title<\/a><\/p>\n

Pictures:\u00a0 The cover and title page of F.J. Camm\u2019s Model Aeroplanes: The Building of Model Monoplanes, Biplanes, etc., together with a Chapter on Building a Model Airship<\/em><\/p>\n

Related information:\u00a0 Mr. Frederick James Camm was a prolific technical writer, as one can learn from a Wikipedia page<\/a>, and his author page at the British Library<\/a> and he also was involved in the formation of the Society for Model Aeronautical Engineers, as mentioned in this biography of H.H. Groves<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition to writing the Model Aeroplanes book described here, he also wrote a Model Aeroplanes Handbook<\/em> published in 1949<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your turn:\u00a0 What model and full-scale aviation information are you looking for?\u00a0 The Lee Renuad Memorial Library<\/a> probably has some tidbit for you.\u00a0 You can browse the library book titles<\/a>,\u00a0or check if\u00a0the library has\u00a0the magazine title<\/a> you need (please note that the list is of titles we have issues for; please\u00a0contact museum staff to verify what issues of each title we have.)\u00a0 Of course, if you can\u2019t visit in person, museum staff can always help you out.\u00a0 Please be aware, though, of the research fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case:\u00a0 Identify a book discussing building and flying model aeroplanes.\u00a0 The information and drawings in the book refer to tractor monoplanes and strip rubber, and doesn\u2019t make any mention of balsa wood.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the cover and title pages are missing so other than obvious age, there is little information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,45,47,1],"tags":[48,49,50],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-model-aviation","category-library","category-museum","category-uncategorized","tag-book","tag-library-2","tag-museum-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}