Transportation breakdowns : learning from bad ideas / by Amie Jane Leavitt.

Título:

ISBN:

9781543592122

9781496666215

Autor personal:

Leavitt, Amie Jane

Información de publicación:

North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, [2020]

Descripción física:

48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Nota general:

Includes index.

Contenido:

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.

Síntesis:

"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.

Información del programa:

Accelerated Reader MG 5.6 1 506353

DAK_SUBJECT_TERM_DISPLAY:

Transportation

History -- Errors, inventions, etc.

Failure analysis (Engineering)

DAK_521_LEXILE:

840L Lexile

DAK_SERIES_TITLE_DSP:

Fantastic fails.

DAK_SERIES:

Fantastic fails