MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 01880cam a2200325 i 4500
001 2014027740
003 DLC
005 20151229075820.0
008 140716s2015 maua j b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2014027740
020 $a9780618984824 (hardcover)
020 $a0618984828 (hardcover)
040 $aNJQ/DLC$beng$cNJQ$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTL684.8$b.G53 2015
082 04 $a629.04$223
100 1 $aGlass, Andrew,$d1949-$eauthor.
245 10 $aFlying cars :$bthe true story /$cby Andrew Glass.
264 1 $aBoston :$bClarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,$c[2015]
300 $a118 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 104) and index.
520 $a"Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"--$cProvided by publisher.
521 1 $aAges 9-12.
505 0 $aFirst, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's aeroplane-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.
650 0 $aFlying automobiles$xHistory$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aFlying automobiles$xTechnological innovations$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aInventors$vBiography$vJuvenile literature.