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Author:

Glass, Andrew, 1949- author.

Title:

Flying cars : the true story / by Andrew Glass.

Publisher:

Clarion Booksan imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Flying automobiles--History--Juvenile literature.
Flying automobiles--Technological innovations--Juvenile literature.
Inventors--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

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 b. taylor's aerocar -- Into thefuture.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0618984828 : HRD
9780618984824 : HRD

LCCN:

2014027740

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)