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Author Standage, Tom, author.

Title A brief history of motion : from the wheel to the car, to what comes next / Tom Standage.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2021.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2093295~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  629.2 STA    DUE 06-08-24
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Description xv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Wheels in the ancient world -- Your carriage awaits -- Under one's own steam -- The rubber hits the road -- You are what you drive -- Who owns the streets? -- The road to suburbia -- Car culture -- The fall and rise of the electric car -- All hail the ride -- From horseless to driverless -- The road ahead.
Summary A look at the history of human transportation, from the invention of the wheel through the era of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization.
Subject Vehicles -- History.
Motion.
Transportation -- History.
ISBN 9781635573619
1635573610
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