Jet Age

See also: jet age

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Coined in the late 1940s.[1]

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, →ISSN:
      Science Evolving Jet-Age Materials [title]
    • 1953 October 11, Bliss K. Thorne, “Faster Air Travel”, in The New York Times‎, →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, →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.

References
  1. “Jet Age”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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