Jet Age

See also: jet age

English

Alternative forms

• jet age

Etymology

Coined in the late 1940s.

Proper noun

Jet Age

1. (historical, aviation) A period in history defined by the advent of aircraft powered by turbine engines, and by the social change this brought about.

   Coordinate terms: atomic age, space age

   • 1947 September 3, “Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials [title]

   • 1953 October 11, Bliss K. Thorne, “Faster Air Travel”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     American commercial aviation stands at the threshold of the jet age. That it will make the transition is now a settled issue, and the one remaining question is when.

   • 2010 November 10, Richard B. Woodward, “Book Review: Jet Age — The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     The Nazis had launched the jet age in 1939 with a fighter plane, the avant-garde Heinkel He 178, but were hardly in shape after the war to exploit this technological advantage.

Related terms

• jet plane

Further reading

• Jet Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia