Title:
Flying cars : the true story / by Andrew Glass.
ISBN:
9780618984824
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
Physical Description:
118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 8.8 3 176261
Interest age level:
Ages 9-12.
OCLC Number:
ocn884440128
Availability:
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