Find out what different forms of transportation are called.

Answers questions about transportation and vehicles, including "Do airships run on air?" and "Why don't ships sink?"

In Building Pharaoh's Chariot, a team of archaeologists, engineers, woodworkers, and horse trainers join forces to build and test two highly accurate replicas of Egyptian royal chariots. They discover advanced features, including spoked wheels, springs, shock absorbers, anti-roll bars, and even a convex shaped rear mirror, leading one of them to compare the level of design to the engineering standards of 1930's-era Buicks!

¿Qué transportes usarás a lo largo de tu vida? ¿A dónde te llevará cada uno de ellos? Varios vehículos desfilan por las páginas y rimas de este libro, contando una historia que enternecerá a todos los miembros dela familia.

There are two phases to learning to drive. In the first phase you will learn to maneuver your vehicle. There are three basic maneuvers of a vehicle: you can make a right turn, a left turn and a lane change. Think of it this way: parking is no more than a right or left turn; in expressway driving you lane change to get on, lane change while on, and lane change to get off; and even city driving you are either making a turn or a lane change. In the second...

By linking Ohio's two major bodies of water-the Ohio River and Lake Erie-Ohio's canals, built in the early nineteenth century, caused unprecedented growth and wealth for the fledgling state. The canals opened up Ohio to new markets, new settlers, agriculture, and industry, depositing large sums of money into the region and giving Ohioans a surge of confidence and optimism. Despite these impressive results, the canals struggled when other modes of...

Have you ever wondered what is it like to live without a car? I did. While my first experiences in car free living sprung from adversity they made me wonder: can you really live without a car in Small Town America? I researched car free living and made a sobering discovery. All of the books written on the subject covered larger cities and glossed over any potential pitfalls to the experience. I made a vow to correct this. There needed to be an honest...

The first general-purpose tractor with narrowly spaced front wheels, the original Farmall was designed to do fine-tuned field cultivation as well as anything a team of farm horses could do-in short, to "farm all." The rest is history, even legend, in the agriculture industry-a legend that unfolds in these pages in full color and sharp detail. This big book features five hundred photographs of Farmall tractors, from that first experimental model introduced...