Unconventional vehicles : forty-five of the strangest cars, trains, planes, submersibles, dirigibles, and rockets ever /

"In this illustrated compendium, readers will learn about forty-five of the strangest, most unconventional vehicles that have ever existed--from submersibles to dirigibles, and everything in between"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hearst, Michael, 1972-
Group Author: Jenssen, Hans, 1963-
Published: Chronicle Books,
Publisher Address: San Francisco :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Uncommon compendiums
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Summary: "In this illustrated compendium, readers will learn about forty-five of the strangest, most unconventional vehicles that have ever existed--from submersibles to dirigibles, and everything in between"--
Carrier Form: 97 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm.
Audience: Age 8-12.
Grades 4 to 6.
ISBN: 9781452172866 (hardback) :
1452172862 (hardback)
Index Number: TL147
CLC: U-49
Call Number: U-49/H436
Contents: A few words from Michael -- Official list -- Airboard personal hovercraft -- Airbus Beluga -- Airfish 8 -- Autoalveare -- Bathyscaphe Trieste -- Beer bike -- Bell X-1 -- Bertha: tunnel-boring machine -- Big wind -- Domicopter -- E-Ship 1 -- eleMMent Pal