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Author : Kerry Dinmont
Publisher : Lerner Classroom
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781541526921
Simple text and photographs discuss how transportation has changed over the years.
Author : Kerry Dinmont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1541534255
Author : Robin Nelson
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541540767
Presents a brief look at how transportation has changed over the years.
Author : Margaret McNamara,Matthew Frank (Children's fiction writer)
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Big books
ISBN : 9781606341896
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Author : Sally Lee
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491402962
What was school like in the days of old? Can you imagine studying in a tiny one-room schoolhouse, writing out lessons on a chalkboard slate? Discover how school life has changed over time, and what it might be like in the future.
Author : Linda Bozzo
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766034372
"Readers will learn about the history, present, and dream about the possible futures of different types of transportation, including cars, planes, motorcycles, trains, bicycles, ships, trucks, and buses"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Paul R. Wonning
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517191858
The history of transportation is a long and interesting one. Travel was not always as easy and fun as it is today. In the past travel was hard, dirty and slow. Present travel is fast, easy and clean. For millennia travel was by foot or draft animal. Through most of human history people traveled as little as possible. The industrial age revolutionized travel by birthing modern transportation modes. Transportation methods between then and now have changed dramatically. Humans have an insatiable need to travel, to see new things and to find out what is just over the horizon. A Short History of Transportation outlines the history of our transition from walking. Instead of walking, we now travel by chariots of the air that can whisk us from one end of the earth to another in just a matter of hours. It has been a fantastic journey from walking airplanes. From watercraft to horses, the automobile and airplane, the story has included many chapters. Now we stand at the dawn of space flight and the many new developments in transportation that beckon. It is certain that we have not finished traveling this road. Perhaps the next centuries will be as exciting as the last ones were.
Author : Charles Horton Cooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Transportation
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUDSL
Author : Robert Jay Dilger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437980585
This report provides a historical perspective on contemporary federalism issues in surface transportation policy that are likely to be addressed by Congress during the 111th Congress, including possible devolution of programmatic responsibility to states and proposals to change state maintenance-of-effort requirements and state cost matching requirements.
Author : Kremena T. Spengler
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404870192
Presents a timeline of human transportation throughout history, from early forms of land and water travel to the development of road and highway systems, the invention of the motor engine, and air and space flight.
Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226471396
Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.
Author : Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625852007
Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.
Author : Julie Cidell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538129401
This clear text provides a broad introduction to transportation geography. With an emphasis on the social and political aspects of transport, Julie Cidell takes a multi-scalar approach across multiple modes and places. She covers waterborne transport, starting with logistics systems; aviation and air travel; railroads; roads (including bicycles and pedestrians as well as cars); and public transit. Each mode covers global systems of transportation, how national identities or landscapes are shaped by transport, the impact of regional governance, the local scale and how it integrates with each of these systems, and how individuals and bodies are part of these systems as well. Throughout, Cidell considers the concepts of equity and sustainability in terms of past, present, and possible future transportation systems. She provides historical and current perspectives to help us think about our present situation and how we might work toward more sustainable transport futures.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253352163
Visionary Railroader chronicles the life of a key figure in the history of rail travel in the United States. As president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Jervis Langdon Jr. had the opportunity to put progressive concepts into practice. In 1964, Langdon took charge of the Rock Island, and by the time he left in 1970, he had spearheaded major improvements for this struggling carrier. The same year, he became lead trustee for the bankrupt Penn Central and three years later assumed the presidency. From his role in passing the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to his work on creating the quasi-public Conrail, Visionary Railroader examines the impact of Langdon's active life with clear text, unique representations of media of the day, and select family photos.
Author : Matthew Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1450954316