Early Automobiles

Author : Jim Harter
Publisher : Wings Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781609404901

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Early Automobiles by Jim Harter Pdf

Image archivist and transportation historian Jim Harter follows his work, Early Farm Tractors, with an even larger collection of images from advertising line art from 1880 to 1930, this time focused on Early Automobiles. Nearly 250 entrancing illustrations -- many suitable for framing -- are gems of the art of commercial engraving. Harter provides a very substantial, detailed history of the development of the "horseless carriage" into the brands famous from the early 20th century -- racers like Stutz, Dusenberg, Stanley, as well as those that became household names like Oldsmobile, Ford, Chrysler and others. Of special interest are the dozens of successful electric automobiles that flourished for 25 years. The history includes many colorful anecdotes about early long-distance races as well as interesting details of engineering breakthroughs. Full bibliography and index.

Author : Elizabeth Janeway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : UCAL:B4098336

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The Early Days of Automobiles by Elizabeth Janeway Pdf

Traces the development of the automobile.

Author : David Burgess Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 0883654830

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The Illustrated History of Automobiles by David Burgess Wise Pdf

... The complete story of cars and their builders ...

Author : Kathleen Franz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812201932

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Tinkering by Kathleen Franz Pdf

In the first decades after mass production, between 1913 and 1939, middle-class Americans not only bought cars but also enthusiastically redesigned them. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, advice experts, and consumers in various guises. Franz argues that automobile ownership opened new possibilities for ingenuity among consumers even as large corporations came to control innovation. Franz weaves together a variety of sources, from serial fiction to corporate documents, to explore tinkering as a form of authority in a culture that valued ingenuity. Women drivers represented one group of consumers who used tinkering to advance their claim to social autonomy. Some canny drivers moved beyond modifying their individual cars to become independent inventors, patenting and selling automotive accessories for the burgeoning national demand for aftermarket products. Earl S. Tupper was one such tinkerer who went on to invent Tupperware. These savvy tinkerers worked in a changing landscape of invention shaped increasingly by automotive giants. By the 1930s, Ford and General Motors worked to change the popular discourse of ingenuity and used the world's fairs of the Depression as a stage to promote a hierarchy of innovation. Franz not only demonstrates the entrepreneurial spirit of American consumers but she engages larger historical questions about gender, consumption and ingenuity while charting the impact corporate expansion on tinkering during the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Rudi Volti
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801883997

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Cars and Culture by Rudi Volti Pdf

A succinct yet comprehensive history, Cars and Culture highlights the technical changes that altered the appearance and performance of automobiles, along with the myriad forces that have shaped the car's development.

Author : Erik Eckermann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 076800800X

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World History of the Automobile by Erik Eckermann Pdf

Automotive historian and former museum curator Eckermann describes the development of the automobile from its roots in human- and animal-drawn conveyances to recent technological advances. A sampling of topics includes early vehicles by Benz, motorized forces in WWII, the American oil crises of the

Author : Erinn Banting
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778728129

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Inventing the Automobile by Erinn Banting Pdf

This book explores the invention of the automobile and its inventors.

Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : OCLC:1048652282

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Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader Pdf

Author : George W. Green
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786412453

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Special Use Vehicles by George W. Green Pdf

Beyond the traditional purposes of moving people, goods, raw materials, and mail from place to place lies a world of unconventional uses of motor vehicles. Rolling grocery stores, churches, classrooms and health clinics have taken traditionally stationary services directly to those who need them. Companies have built vehicles in the shapes of their products (the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile being just one famous example) from the early years of automobiles. This lively history gives a fascinating overview of the many special purposes vehicles have served. The unconventional uses of motor vehicles stretch one's imagination. The author here divides them into eight types based on their purposes and uses. Sales vehicles support a successful sales volume; advertising vehicles retain present customers and attract new ones; education and training vehicles provide skills updates for employees; charity vehicles are used to serve various populations of the needy, suffering, and distressed; religious vehicles promote a particular faith; functional vehicles perform an on-the-spot function normally done by a fixed-base facility; multimodal vehicles have the ability to traverse land, water, and air; and government vehicles provide a host of services to constituencies. Examples are provided for each type of vehicle and examples from other nations besides the United States are included as well.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780756689384

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Car by DK Pdf

From the first motor cars and classic cars to today's supercars and Formula 1, this is the ultimate book about the history of the car. Packed with stunning photography, and featuring more than 2,000 cars, Car shows you how cars have evolved around the world over the the last 130 years, and their impact on society as objects of curiosity, symbols of status and luxury, and items of necessity. Extensive catalogues showcase the most important marques and models, organized in categories such as sports cars, convertibles, and city compacts. The book also features virtual photographic tours of some of the most iconic cars from each era such as the Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Ford Model T, Lamborghini Countach, and Ferrari F40, while cross-sections of key engines explore the driving force behind them. Lavishly illustrated feature spreads detail the stories of the men, machines, and magic that helped create the car world's most famous marques and made brands such as Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Aston Martin, and Cadillac household names. If you love cars, then you'll love Car. It is simply a must-have title for all car enthusiasts.

Author : Michael Sedgwick
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0706400585

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Early Cars by Michael Sedgwick Pdf

A British expert chooses from many countries certain early cars which show trends in development.

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552770054

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Car Nation by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by Prairie grain farmers, the new modern woman, travellers to the north, and rough-and-tumble adventurers looking for a thrill by traversing the immense length of the country. The automobile was the symbol of the modern Canada of the twentieth century, and the final victory of technology over landscape. Canadians were building cars from the beginning. Independent firms and branches of the big American manufacturers vied for the lucrative Canadian market. Automaking has been an integral part of Canada's economy since the car's introduction. For more than a century, Canadians have lived with this automobile revolution, and all the consequences and permutations that it represents. Blending social, cultural and economic history, Dimitry Anastakis's engaging text tells the fascinating story of the car across Canada from earliest days, when cars and horses jockeyed for parking space, to the multilane freeways of the twenty-first century.

Author : Bernhard Rieger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674075757

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The People’s Car by Bernhard Rieger Pdf

At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile—the Volkswagen Beetle—was one of the most beloved in the world. Bernhard Rieger examines culture and technology, politics and economics, and industrial design and advertising genius to reveal how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became an exceptional global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. Beyond its quality and low cost, the Beetle’s success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of people across nations and cultures. In West Germany, it came to stand for the postwar “economic miracle” and helped propel Europe into the age of mass motorization. In the United States, it was embraced in the suburbs, and then prized by the hippie counterculture as an antidote to suburban conformity. As its popularity waned in the First World, the Beetle crawled across Mexico and Latin America, where it symbolized a sturdy toughness necessary to thrive amid economic instability. Drawing from a wealth of sources in multiple languages, The People’s Car presents an international cast of characters—executives and engineers, journalists and advertisers, assembly line workers and car collectors, and everyday drivers—who made the Beetle into a global icon. The Beetle’s improbable story as a failed prestige project of the Third Reich which became a world-renowned brand illuminates the multiple origins, creative adaptations, and persisting inequalities that characterized twentieth-century globalization.

Author : Curt McConnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0803231636

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Great Cars of the Great Plains by Curt McConnell Pdf

Chronicles the development of midwestern community automobile manufacture prior to the Great Depression and identifies five early car makers and their contributions to the automobile industry

Author : Ryan Nagelhout
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482427622

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The Problem with Early Cars by Ryan Nagelhout Pdf

Automobiles are amazing machines that take most of us from place to place on a daily basis. From their earliest days, making them safe to drive took lots of hard work and ingenuity. From early explosions with steam and failed experiments with batteries, automobiles have come a long way. Early cars needed to lug around spare parts and extra tires just to drive a few miles. Readers find out all about the amazing inventors who worked so hard to make motor vehicles the modern marvels they are today.