Transport
By: Neil Morris
Series: Raintree freestyle; From fail to win! Learning from bad ideas; Raintree freestyle; From fail to win!
Publisher: Raintree; Raintree Hardbacks
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781406217667; 9781406219371
Subjects: Transportation; Juvenile literature; Technological innovations; Transportation accidents; Inventions
Description: This book counts down some projects where inventors have shown courage and enterprise to make travel faster and more convenient, and to go where no one had gone before. Find out about the disappointments of jet packs, the plans for a nuclear-powered car, supersonic transport, and about many more successes and failures.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lessons learned; title: Sinclair C5; title: Jet pack; title: The Mizar; title: Ford Nucleon; title: Langley's Aerodrome; title: Concorde; title: Tupolev Tu-144; title: Cugnot's steam cart; title: Apollo 1; title: "Spruce Goose"; title: Hindenburg; title: Titanic; title: Timeline; title: Glossary.