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Author:

Hearst, Michael, 1972- author.

Title:

Unconventional vehicles : forty-five of the strangest cars, trains, planes, submersibles, dirigibles, and rockets ever / by Michael Hearst ; illustrated by Hans Jenssen.

Publisher:

Chronicle BooksLLC,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

97 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Subject:

Motor vehicles--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Jenssen, Hans, 1963- illustrator.

Contents:

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 airship -- Hammetschwand elevator -- Handcar -- Helios solar 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 -- Walking truck -- Winston Wong ice vehicle -- Zamboni -- Zil-2906.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Uncommon compendiums
Hearst, Michael, 1972- Uncommon compendiums.

ISBN:

1452172862
9781452172866

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1097365775

LCCN:

2019014850

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