Flying cars the true story
"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.
| Main Author: | Glass, Andrew, 1949- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; New York :
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- First, the dream
- Gustave Whitehead's condor
- Trajan Vuia's aéroplane-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.