Transport: general interest

Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often narrower than many realized.

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities.

This field guide gives the reader access to the largest parts store in the world for 1946-1948 Dodge Deluxe and Custom D24 models, with information from more than 200 aftermarket catalogs for Dodge parts made in the U.

The moment in 1958 when a sports car-crazed youth in Massachusetts saw his first Ferrari changed his life.

The truck's role in American society changed dramatically from the 1960s through the 1980s, with the rise of off-roaders, the van craze of the 1970s and minivan revolution of the 1980s, the popularization of the SUV as family car and the diversification of the pickup truck into multiple forms and sizes.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.

On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage.

Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century.

In 1893, Indianapolis carriage maker Charles Black created a rudimentary car--perhaps the first designed and built in America.

A century ago, horses were ubiquitous in America.

Eugene Burton Ely was buried the day after his 25th birthday, less than a half-mile from where he was born.

A hybrid machine--powered at times by steam, electricity or internal combustion--the motorcycle in its infancy was an innovation to help bicycle racers go faster.

The advent of mass railroad travel in the 1800s saw the extension of a system of global transport that developed various national styles of construction, operation, administration, and passenger experiences.

In the 1970s, as car enthusiasts in the U.

From 1915 through the early 1920s, American auto racing experienced rapid and exciting change.

Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill.

From the earliest "e;velocipedes"e; through the advent of the pneumatic tire to the rise of modern road and track competition, this history of the sport of bicycle racing traces its role in the development of bicycle technology between 1868 and 1903.

The history of the U.

This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads.

Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe.

Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre's sense of space and time.

In the late nineteenth century, circus aerialists collaborated with show balloonists to perform death-defying stunts, initially by suspending themselves from trapeze bars beneath a balloon, later by jumping from the balloons using fabric parachutes.

Gregory Cagle was a 10-year-old car fanatic when his family moved from New Jersey to Germany in 1956.

The Union victory at Gettysburg is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War but many scholars consider the capture of Vicksburg the decisive action.

Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime.

On November 24, 1968, more than 250 people from 19 nations set off on a 10,000-mile endurance rally from London to Sydney.

The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production.

During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer, diplomat, and philanthropist.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.

Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes tested.

Incorporated by veteran automakers in 1913, the Chandler Motor Car Company was initially successful in a fiercely competitive industry, manufacturing an array of quality automobiles at a range of prices.

Perhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the duration of the war--brought down the Confederacy.

Steam locomotives dominated the railways from the 1820s through the 1960s.

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants.

Formula One has long maintained a glitzy aura that masks dark and strange goings-on in the background.

This book provides an in-depth look at the great motor races that took place in Savannah, Georgia, in the golden era of early road racing: the Grand Prize of the Automobile Club of America and the Vanderbilt Cup.

Only in America could Walter A.

Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972.

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition.

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In becoming "e;a useful man"e; on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia.

The 1928 quest for the Land Speed Record on the sands of Daytona Beach was a first for America, a singular mix of technology, thrills and tragedy.

Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazine lamented that American "e;pilots have broken the records which we, here in France, considered as our own for so long.

The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumbermans batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat.

Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality offers a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on customers as well as service providers, affecting both the demand and the supply sides of the industry - services marketing and consumer behaviour, management, organisational behaviour, and human resource management.

For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet.