Transportation breakdowns : learning from bad ideas / by Amie Jane Leavitt.
Title:
Transportation breakdowns : learning from bad ideas / by Amie Jane Leavitt.
ISBN:
9781543592122
9781496666215
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Push and pull : Beach's pneumatic transit system -- Whoosh! : the moving sidewalk -- Liftoff! : Samuel Langley's aerodrome -- The unsinkable sinker : the Titanic -- Big balloons : the zeppelin -- Floating on air : the aérotrain -- Jet-setter : the Concorde -- Lemon in the sky : the flying Pinto -- Beep beep : Dickmanns's self-driving car -- Watch your head! : Transit elevated bus.
Summary:
"See some of the world's fastest transportation breakdowns at lightning speed. Find out how each form of transportation failed, the basic engineering missed during construction, and what engineers learned from their mistakes"-- Provided by publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.6 1 506353
Audience:
840L Lexile
Series Title:
Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
on1109836417
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
