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Glass, Andrew, 1949-
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Flying automobiles -- Juvenile literature.
Flying automobiles -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- Juvenile literature.
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Glass, Andrew, 1949-
Flying automobiles -- Juvenile literature.
Flying automobiles -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- Juvenile literature.
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Flying cars : the true story / by Andrew Glass.
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Glass, Andrew, 1949-
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015.
Call #:
629
.04
G549f
Subjects
Flying automobiles -- Juvenile literature.
Flying automobiles -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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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