Flying cars : the true story
(2015)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/629.04/GLASS,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction J/629.04/GLASS,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
DESCRIPTION

118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780618984824 (hardcover), 0618984828 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"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"--

Ages 9-12

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