This first comprehensive biography of Rudolf Uhlenhaut, illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, depicts his life and technical accomplishments, including a complete compilation of his patents which puts them into a technical and historical context. An engineer and designer for Daimler-Benz, he became famous for his achievements regarding the Silver Arrows, the 300 SL with the famous gull wing doors, the legendary Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, and the various record-breaking experimental C 111 versions.Based on numerous interviews with Uhlenhaut himself, contemporary witnesses, colleagues and family members, the book paints a vivid picture of the person behind the technical innovations and explores his character and motivation. Born in 1906 in London, the son of an English mother and a German father, Rudolf Uhlenhaut joined Daimler-Benz in 1931 after finishing his mechanical engineering studies in Munich. In 1936 he took over as head of the racing department and conducted the Silver Arrows and Rudolf Caracciola to their 1937 European championship.After World War II, he created the road versions W 198 and the smaller open-topped W 121 of the 300 SL "Gullwing," both launched at the International Motor Sports Show in New York 1954. Uhlenhaut's official company car, a 300 SLR with a top speed of 290 km/h was the Uhlenhaut Coupe - the fastest car of its day authorized for road use.
Peter Beutler; Fritz Fiehler; Dieter Hart; Jan Priewe; Bernd Ziegler; Holger Paetow; Klaus Tonner; Rudolf Hickel; Harald Mattfeldt; Paul Chamsol; Ottwald Demele; Wolfgang Schoeller; Jürgen Gotthold; Udo Mayer; Hans-W. Micklitz; Klau Tonner; Rainer Volkmann
Aus dem Goethe-National-Museum - 1. Band ist ein unver nderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1895. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ern hrung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquit ten erh ltlich. Hansebooks verlegt diese B cher neu und tr gt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch f r die Zukunft bei.
Sixteen years have passed since the death of Lord Egleaseon, the vampire lord who sought to be human again, defeated by the famous noble lord, Wolfgang. One day after cleansing the surrounding countryside of vampires, Wolfgang returns from his latest expedition only to be faced with the horrible reality that everything he held dear to his heart has been taken from him. His wife is dead, his home is burned, and his son is nowhere to be found. Only the smallest inclination leads him to believe his orphaned servant is somehow responsible.He is desperate and provoked, and will do anything to get his son back, even if it means journeying the path of darkness. Thus begins the story of Wolfgang.
The short life and times of WOLFGANG, Laird of Castle Haggard- in 5 volumes, which are illustrated by the author. Volume 1. BEWARE OF THE DOG: Enfant terrible, a freak of nature. His rise from obscurity to become the Laird of Castle Haggard, following his marriage to Lady Br nhilda Constanze Haggard. His travails restoring the Castle. The strange customs and traditions of the Castle. Beset by demons disturbed by his renovations - a black dog, the Red Duchess, and vengeful ghosts. Betrayed in love - a laird cuckholded. The laird's war against a drug baron and his henchmen. An encounter with Lucifer in a black pit. The riddle of the laird's map of shifting lines and the mystery of the forking paths of the Castle's famous vegetable garden. All this and more recounted in a series of tales, dictated to the laird's secretary, an untrustworthy Inuit, who has an even greater capacity for drugs than the laird himself, which is saying something. The story is illustrated by the author, in his unique style, with 40 drawings.
A little ghost with big dreams learns to define success on his own terms in a spookily satisfying story for our times from Lenny Wen. Everything in the meadow, from hugging the trees to stargazing with friends, fills Wolfgang with joy.His ambition, though, is to become the great spirit of the Dark Castle. So Wolfgang strives to perfect his spooking skills, practicing day and night. When Wolfgang wins the honor of haunting the shadowy halls, he is very good at it…but if being a great spirit means leaving his beloved meadow behind, is it good for him?
This volume is a collection based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Conference of 1991, the principal scholarly event in the English-speaking world in commemoration of the bicentenary. It includes essays placing Mozart in the context, in Salzburg and Vienna, in which he worked, explaining aspects of his life and work hitherto obscure; essays interpreting his instrumental music; and a substantial series of studies on different aspects of his operas, fromLucio Silla to La clemenza di Tito, with particular stress on the creative processes in the Da Ponte operas.
Piero Melograni here offers a wholly readable account of Mozart's remarkable life and times. This masterly biography proceeds from the young Mozart's earliest years as a wunderkind - the child prodigy who traveled with his family to perform concerts throughout Europe - to his formative years in Vienna, where he fully absorbed the artistic and intellectual spirit of the Enlightenment, to his deathbed, his unfinished Requiem, and the mystery that still surrounds his burial. Melograni's deft use of Mozart's letters throughout confers authority and vitality to his recounting, and his expertise brings Mozart's eighteenth-century milieu evocatively to life. Written with a gifted historian's flair for narrative and unencumbered by specialized analyses of Mozart's music, Melograni's is the most vivid and enjoyable biography of Mozart available.
