Shute, Nevil

Shute, Nevil, Slide Rule, Readers Union, William Heinemann, 1956. 

Shute, Nevil. No Highway. New York William Morrow Co., 1948. 

Smith, Julian. Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway). Boston Twayne Publishers, 1976. 

Neville Shute, Slide Rule (1954). The engineering ambience In which the R100 was created is described, the privately funded alternative to the Air Ministry s R101, an aircraft capable of flying the Empire Routes to India and transatlantic to Canada. 

Nevil Shute s seemingly farfetched plot is eerily close to what happened with the de Havilland Comets. It is as if Shute had constructed an elaborate scenario based on Murphy s Law and followed it to its logical conclusion. Given that new alloys behave in new and generally unknown ways with regard to fatigue crack... 

Nevil Shute appended an author s note to No Highway. It states ... 

Oliver Wendell Holmes The Deacon s Masterpiece, about the absurdity of building a one-hoss shay that will not break down, is one such work. Nevil Shute s No Highway, about metal fatigue in a new airplane design, is another. And Robert Byrne s recent novel Skyscraper, by having technology as its main theme, is still... 

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