Transport of Delight
Subtitle: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles (Technology and the Environment)
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781884836954
Subjects: Technology; Science/Mathematics; Local transit; Technology & Industrial Arts; Street-railroads; General; Public Transportation; Environmental Engineering & Technology; California; Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
First sentence: When Copernicus argued in 1543 that the earth rotates daily on its own axis and moves annually around a stationary sun, he was attacked by a Lutheran follower, Melanchthon, since "the eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty-four hours."