Flying Cars : : the True Story
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Call Number: Y 629.04 Gl, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Transportation / Land
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch
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First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's aeroplane-automobile -- Glenn Curtiss's autoplane -- Felix Longobardi's combination vehicle -- Henry Ford's flying flivver -- Waldo Waterman's arrowbile -- Harold Pitcairn's autogyro -- Joseph Gwinn's aircar -- R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion omnidirectional human transport -- William Bushnell Stout's skycar -- Theodore P. hall's convaircar -- Robert fulton's airphibian -- Daniel zuck's plane-mobile -- Moulton b. taylor's aerocar -- Into the future.
"Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 118 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780618984824
0618984828
SUBJECTS
Flying automobiles -- History.
Flying automobiles -- Technological innovations.
Inventors -- Biography.