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Author Glass, Andrew, 1949- author.

Title Flying cars : the true story / by Andrew Glass.

Publication Info. Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1645766~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Nonfiction  J 629.04 GLA    DUE 05-06-24
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Description 118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106) and index.
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.
Audience Ages 9-12.
Note Ages 9-12.
Contents First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's aéroplane-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 the future.
Audience 1340L Lexile
Note 1340L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 8.8 3 176261
Note Accelerated Reader MG 8.8 3 176261
Subject Flying automobiles -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Flying automobiles -- Technological innovations -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9780618984824 (hardcover)
0618984828 (hardcover)
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