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Innovations in transportation / Larry Verstraete.

Verstraete, Larry, (author.).

Summary:

"Imagine a street filled with horses and buggies, or the skies without airplanes! You might not realize that, before vehicles, it used to take days--even weeks--to visit friends or family! This title looks at major innovations in transportation over the years, and the ingenious inventors, scientists, and engineers who made them. With a little inventive thinking, what might you create to help us change the way we travel?"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780778726807
  • ISBN: 9780778726869
  • Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Crabtree Publishing Company, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Pedal power: Mountain bike - Joe Breeze -- Fast & furious: Gas-powered automobile - Carl Benz -- Bio box: Kid inventor Spencer Whale - Kidkare car -- Bio box: Kid inventor Param Jaggi - Algae mobile -- Moving a crowd: Subway system - Alfred Ely Beach -- Moving sidewalk - Alfred Speer -- Are we having fun?: Razor scooter - Gino Tsai -- Bio box: Kid inventor Armand Bombardier - The snowmobile -- Surf's up: The hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell -- The outboard motor - Ole Evinrude -- Below the sea: The submarine - Cornelis Drebbel -- Windsurfer - Hoyle Schweitzer & Jim Drake -- Scuba gear - Jacques Cousteau -- Up and away: The airplane - Wilbur & Orville Wright -- Blasting into the unknown: Rocket - Robert Goddard -- Reaching higher: Rocket belt - Wendell Moore -- Omni hoverboard - Catalin Alexandru Duru -- You, the inventor.
Target Audience Note:
Age 8-11.
Grades 4-6.
1050L Lexile
Subject:
Transportation engineering > Juvenile literature.
Transportation > History > Juvenile literature.
Motor vehicles > Juvenile literature.
Inventors > Juvenile literature.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library. (Show)

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