01972cam a2200241 4500
503791578
TxAuBib
20210604120000.0
190408s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u
9781452172866
1452172862
TxAuBib
Hearst, Michael,
1972-
Unconventional vehicles :
forty-five of the strangest submersibles, dirigibles, cars, trains, planes, and rockets ever /
by Michael Hearst ; illustrated by Hans Jenssen.
San Francisco, California :
Chronicle Books, LLC,
[2021]
97 pages :
col. ill.
Airboard personal hovercraft -- Airbus Beluga -- Airfish 8 -- Autoalveare -- Bathyscaphe Trieste -- Beer bike -- Bell X-1 -- Bertha : tunnel-boring machine -- Big wind -- Domicopter -- E-Ship 1 -- Elemment Palazzo -- Flying cathedral -- Flying jellyfish -- Gas-turbine motorcycle -- Graf Zeppelin -- Hammetschwand elevator -- Handcar -- Helios prototype solar-powered aircraft -- Human Cannonball truck -- Hyperloop -- HZ-1 aerocycle -- Jail wagon -- Jet pack -- Jet train -- Krupp Bagger 288 -- Liberty One steam-powered rocket -- Lockheed XFV -- Monowheel -- Moon buggy -- Onewheel electric rideable -- Ostrich carriage -- Ripsaw -- Scubadoo : Breathing Observation Bubble (BOB) -- Solar-powered race car -- Stoopidtaller -- Strollon stroller -- Swallowable wireless camera -- The turtle -- USS Zumwalt -- Voyager 1 and 2 -- Walking truck -- Winston Wong bio-inspired ice vehicle -- Zamboni -- Zil-2906.
In this illustrated compendium, readers will learn about forty-five of the strangest, most unconventional vehicles that have ever existed--from submersibles to dirigibles, and everything in between.
20210604.
Motor vehicles
Miscellanea.
Vehicles
Juvenile literature.
Jenssen, Hans,
1963-