Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company (Great Lakes Books)
by C. Roger Pellett
From 1888 to 1898, the American Steel Barge Company built and operated a fleet of forty-four barges and steamships on the Great Lakes and in international trade. These new ships were considered revolutionary by some and nautical curiosities by others. Built from what was then a high tech material (steel) and powered by state-of-the-art steam machinery, their creation in the remote north was a sign of industrial accomplishment. In Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company, C. Roger Pe...
Business Jets International
Freight Best Practice
Intended both for railway enthusiasts and for anyone who enjoys exploring the British countryside and discovering more about Britain's heritage, this is a celebration of the beauty of 13 rural branch lines. They are all that remain of a once-vast network that covered the country until most of it was swept away by the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.;Each of the 13 chapters covers a different branch line, the area in which it is located, the places it passes through, and the people who work and travel...
Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere (Perspectives)
by Christian Wolmar
Driverless cars are the future - just around the corner. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. But closer inspection reveals that we are much further from that driverless utopia than we are led to believe by newspaper headlines and by press releases from firms with vested interests. Christian Wolmar argues that autonomous cars are the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Even if the many technical difficulties that stand in the way of achieving...
Contributed papers presented at the International Conference on Energising the Indian Aerospace Industry, held on April 11-12, 2006 in New Delhi.
Conference Proceedings (Conference proceedings, Vol 419)
