Flying Trains
Publisher: Imported Pubn
Published: December 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780828533010
Subjects: Travel
First sentence: The idea of a train supported on an air cushion or magnetic suspension rather than wheels came to the author as far back as 1957.
Table of contents: title: At the Start of a New Transportation Method
pagenum: 7; title: How to Make the Distant Closer
pagenum: 15; title: Travel and Progress of Civilization
pagenum: 15; title: Speed and Technological Progress
pagenum: 16; title: Transportation and Mankind
pagenum: 19; title: The Development of Transportation
pagenum: 19; title: Social Implications of Transportation
pagenum: 23; title: What is Better - a Tractor or an Electric Train?
pagenum: 28; title: Multiple Requirements for Transportation
pagenum: 28; title: Project Feasibility Analysis
pagenum: 30; title: Airships - a Proposition for the Future or a Transportation for Today?
pagenum: 37; title: Cushion ... but of What Type?
pagenum: 45; title: When the Wheel Fails to Do the Job
pagenum: 45; title: A Winged Train on an Air Cushion
pagenum: 53; title: Trains with Magnetic Suspension
pagenum: 69; title: Humans in a Magnetic Field
pagenum: 85; title: Northwards to Work, Southwards Home
pagenum: 90; title: The Surprises of Permafrost
pagenum: 90; title: ACVs for Northern Regions
pagenum: 93; title: The Development Strategy for the Soviet North
pagenum: 98; title: Trains for Vacation Flights
pagenum: 108; title: Wheelless Trains on Short Sections
pagenum: 108; title: Wheelless Trains over Long Distances
pagenum: 118; title: The Future Begins Today
pagenum: 124; title: Projects, Projects, Projects
pagenum: 124; title: Flying above the Waves
pagenum: 139; title: The World of Transport Today and Tomorrow
pagenum: 144; title: Some Milestones in the Soviet Literature
pagenum: 152