Unconventional vehicles : forty-five of the strangest submersibles, dirigibles, cars, trains, planes, and rockets ever
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/629.046/HEARST,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction J/629.046/HEARST,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, LLC, [2020]
DESCRIPTION

97 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781452172866, 1452172862 :, 1452172862, 9781452172866
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Airboard personal hovercraft -- Airbus Beluga -- Airfish 8 -- Autoalveare -- Bathyscaphe Trieste -- Beer bike -- Bell X-1 -- Bertha : tunnel-boring machine -- Big wind -- Domicopter -- E-Ship 1 -- Elemment Palazzo -- Flying cathedral -- Flying jellyfish -- Gas-turbine motorcycle -- Graf Zeppelin -- Hammetschwand elevator -- Handcar -- Helios prototype solar-powered aircraft -- Human Cannonball truck -- Hyperloop -- HZ-1 aerocycle -- Jail wagon -- Jet pack -- Jet train -- Krupp Bagger 288 -- Liberty One steam-powered rocket -- Lockheed XFV -- Monowheel -- Moon buggy -- Onewheel electric rideable -- Ostrich carriage -- Ripsaw -- Scubadoo : Breathing Observation Bubble (BOB) -- Solar-powered race car -- Stoopidtaller -- Strollon stroller -- Swallowable wireless camera -- The turtle -- USS Zumwalt -- Voyager 1 and 2 -- Walking truck -- Winston Wong bio-inspired ice vehicle -- Zamboni -- Zil-2906

"In this illustrated compendium, readers will learn about forty-five of the strangest, most unconventional vehicles that have ever existed--from submersibles to dirigibles, and everything in between"--

Age 8-12

Grades 4 to 6

1080L

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