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  • Glass, Andrew, 1949-
     
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  • Glass, Andrew, 1949-
     
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    Flying cars : the true story / by Andrew Glass.
    by Glass, Andrew, 1949-
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    Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015.
    Call #:629.04 G549f
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  • Flying automobiles -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Flying automobiles -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Inventors -- Juvenile literature.
  • ISBN: 
    9780618984824
    0618984828
    Description: 
    118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106) and index.
    Contents: 
    First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's a©♭roplane-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.
    Summary: 
    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.
    Audience: 
    Ages 9-12.
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    Bedford Public LibraryChildren's Nonfiction629.04 G549fChildrens BooksChecked outJul 24, 2024Add Copy to MyList
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