Looking at each method of transport in turn, this exhaustive reference examines the developing technologies through the ages and charts discoveries such as the wheel, steam power, the internal combustion engine and jet propulsion. Over 40 projects show how things work, including how ships float and how birds fly, make a monorail or a model plane. Meet the pioneers and inventors that made it all happen and find out what the future holds.
- ISBN10 0754812529
- ISBN13 9780754812524
- Publish Date 29 August 2003 (first published 31 December 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 September 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Anness Publishing
- Imprint Lorenz Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264
- Language English