Flying cars : the true story

Glass, Andrew, 1949- author.

Book 2015

"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.

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ISBN:

9780618984824
0618984828

Description:

118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Target Audience Note:

009-012

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

First, the dream
Gustave Whitehead's condor
Trajan Vuia's aeroplane-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 born taylor's aerocar
Into the future

LCCN:

2014027740

Control Number:

1533097

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