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Book

Flying cars : the true story

Call Number

  • J 629.04 GLAS (CEN, WSQ)

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Publication Information

Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]

Physical Description

118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Audience

Ages 9-12.

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"--

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 b. Taylor's aerocar
  • Into the future.

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