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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormously. If Google get their way, are we all going to be ferried around in tiny electric bubble-cars? Or will we watch robots race a bionic Lewis Hamilton? And what about the future of classic cars? In Autopia, TV presenter and journalist Jon Bentley celebrates...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This title shows readers how to build cars they can really power and race, such as a balloon car, a solar car, and many more. Easy-to-follow instructions, handy templates, dynamic photographs, and easily accessible materials make these projects challenging, fun, and highly rewarding!"--
Author
Publisher
Motorbooks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive new edition of How to Design Cars Like a Pro provides an in-depth look at modern automotive design. Interviews with leading automobile designers from Ford, BMW, GM Jaguar, Nissan and others, analyses of past and present trends, studies of individual models and concepts, and much more combine to reveal the fascinating mix of art and science that goes into creating automobiles. This book is a must-have for professional designers,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, ... [a] true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly fifty thousand visitors. Among the spectators was an obscure would-be...
8) Making a car
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There are over 1.4 billion cars in the world today. This common form of transportation is used by many to get from place to place, but few really understand how cars work. From the engine block to the exhaust, young readers will take a step onto the assembly line and hop right into a car's exciting journey. Full-color photographs bring the process to life in vivid detail, and a step-by-step guide explains how readers can build their own model car!"--...
9) Cars
Author
Language
English
Description
Brief text and labeled illustrations discuss the characteristics and uses of different types of automobiles, including sport cars, family sedans, racing cars, all-terrain vehicles, and vans.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring historical fiction based on the real life of Bertha Benz, whose husband built the first prototype automobile, which eventually evolved into the Mercedes-Benz marque. "Unfortunately, only a girl again." From a young age, Cäcilie Bertha Ringer is fascinated by her father's work as a master builder in Pforzheim, Germany. But those five words, which he wrote next to her name in the family Bible, haunt Bertha. Years later, Bertha meets Carl...
12) Building a car
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the process of building a car"--Provided by publisher.
13) Cars
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book introduces early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind cars. Includes glossary and index."--
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Car manufacturers have learned to be versatile over the years. Some cars are designed for safety and comfort. Others are designed for speed. Car enthusiasts can spend hours hotly debating the best designs. Environmental concerns also affect a car's design, especially when it comes to the engine. This volume looks at some of the most iconic and interesting cars from the inside out. A glossary of new terms gives readers a better grasp of the subject...
Author
Publisher
Veloce
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The automobile seems to be as popular now as it ever was. Posters of cars still adorn many a child's bedroom wall, and school exercise books are full of doodles of cars. This book takes those notebook sketches and teaches you how to develop them into the car designs you see in magazines.
Using simple to follow step-by-step drawings it guides you from pencil sketch to marker rendering, from doodle to highly visual computer generated artwork.
Adrian...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Modern Automotive Technology, updated for 2014, is a comprehensive textbook organized around the ASE automobile test areas that supports career readiness for those wishing to pursue a job in the automotive industry. It details the construction, operation, diagnosis, service, and repair of late-model automobiles and light trucks. Using a building block approach, students first learn the fundamentals of automotive systems and then progress gradually...
18) Car science
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Why do engines make cars go? What is horsepower and why is it important? How can the sun power new cars? The answers to all those questions-and more-are in science . . . and in this book. Look under the hood and in the driver's seat to find out how cars and science are linked. And it's not just cars-science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover more ways that science is a part of our lives in SCIENCE 24–7!
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This entertaining book navigates readers through the history of car production and offers a front-seat view of the science and engineering that makes the world's most important vehicle safe for us to drive."--
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