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Transport curiosities, 1850-1950 : weird and wonderful ways of travelling by road, rail, air and sea

Wade, John, 1945-2022
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Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designers drawing board. Railway engines driven by horses, for example. Or maybe the surprising number of cars, boats and trains driven by airplane propellers. In this book you will find cars that flew, cars that floated on water and boats that ran on roads; steam-powered airplanes, electric submarines, railways driven by pneumatic air, aircraft with flapping wings and a whole lot more. If you are a person who would like to have flown in an airship, or travelled in a train whose carriage sat on stilts above the sea with its tracks below the water, or dreamed of riding on a London to New York railway that took twelve days to travel the long way around the world, or maybe just fancied fixing your bicycle to a railway track, then this book is for you.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Transport, 2022.©2022
Collation:
vii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781399003971 (hbk)9781399003971
Dewey class:
388.09388
Language:
English
BRN:
512090
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