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Flying cars : the true story / by Andrew Glass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Description: 118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0618984828 (hardcover)
  • 9780618984824 (hardcover)
Subject(s):
Contents:
First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's a©♭roplane-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.
Summary: "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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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 629.04 G549 Available 33111008110740
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 629.04 G549 Available 33111008059715
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Set imaginations soaring with the only book for young readers that explores the history--and potential future--of cars that can fly!

As soon as there were planes and automobiles, visionary engineers and inventors did their best to combine the two to create flying cars. This engaging account of attempts to build hybrid vehicles includes insight into their creators and the intense drive--and dreams of flight--that kept bringing inventors back to the drawing board. Generously illustrated with fascinating period photographs, the book combines history, biography, technology, and humor, and it includes an author's note, source notes, bibliography, and index.

A must-have for fans of cars and planes and for spurring the creativity of young inventors inspired by the combination of cutting-edge technology and human ingenuity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106) and index.

First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's a©♭roplane-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.

Ages 9-12.

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