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A brief history of motion : from the wheel, to the car, to what comes next / Tom Standage.
Lippincott Library HE151 .S727 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Standage, Tom, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vehicles--History.
- Vehicles.
- History.
- Motion.
- Transportation--History.
- Transportation.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Wheels In The Ancient World
- 2. Your Carriage Awaits
- 3. Under One's Own Steam
- 4. The Rubber Hits The Road
- 5. You Are What You Drive
- 6. Who Owns The Streets?
- 7. The Road To Suburbia
- 8. Car Culture
- 9. The Fall And Rise Of The Electric Car
- 10. All Hail The Ride
- 11. From Horseless To Driverless
- 12. The Road Ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781635573619
- 1635573610
- 9781526608321
- 1526608324
- OCLC:
- 1184237267
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