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Author: Beth Bence Reinke
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1541592905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnter the thrilling world of stock car racing! Readers will discover the history of stock car racing, what a typical race day looks like, who the hottest racers are, and more.
Author: Various
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Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781725332539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStep inside the exciting world of extreme cars! The books in this engaging series present fast and furious facts and specs for some of the most extreme cars on the road! Each car is shown in full-color images, which are accompanied by record-breaking statistics including maximum speed and serious levels of power. The manageable text presents fascinating information about each car and its manufacturer. These dazzling, technical guides to the world's coolest cars are sure to attract readers of all levels.
Author: Samuel Hawley
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1641600233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do something big: harness the thrust of a jet in a car. With a growing obsession that would cost him his marriage, he started building in his dad's garage. The car's name was Spirit of America. Through perseverance and endless hard work, Craig completed Spirit and broke the land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, setting a new mark of 407 mph in 1963. He went on to be the first person to drive 500 and 600 mph, breaking the land speed record five times. In the early 1970s he turned to rockets and set an acceleration record at Bonneville that stands to this day. He built a jet car in the 1990s, Spirit of America–Sonic Arrow, to go head to head against Britain's ThrustSSC to be the first to Mach 1. Craig's subsequent crash at 675 mph remains the fastest in history. Even today, at the age of eighty, he is going strong with plans for yet another Spirit of America racer. The ultimate goal: 1,000 mph. Ultimate Speed is the authorized biography of Craig Breedlove, with a foreword by Craig himself. A candid revelation of one of motorsports' most interesting figures, the book is based primarily on countless hours of interviews with Craig and dozens of people connected to his life.
Author: J Chris Roselius
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1541577191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans will adore this comprehensive look at auto and motorcycle racing, from the history of the sport to today's hottest racers.
Author: J. Storrs Hall
Publisher: Stripe Press
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1953953271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.
Author: Phil Ward
Publisher: David and Charles
Published: 2014-05-19
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1845846966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiat have built millions of vehicles since 1899 but the company is perhaps best known for its ability to produce small, economical, characterful cars. 'Great Small Fiats' traces this concept from the birth of the 500A 'Topolino' in the 1930s up the current Panda and a hint of the proposed Nuova 500. Each of the selected models are described in detail from their conception through to current ownership in the hands of collectors and enthusiasts. The chapters include practical information on buying and running a small Fiat and restoration advice for the older cars. Also included are Fiats built under licence outside of Italy and the Fiat-derived 'etceterini' coachbuilt and competition cars.
Author: Emi Osono
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-05-23
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0470267623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.
Author: Ishfaq Ahmad
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-02-03
Total Pages: 1216
ISBN-13: 1482254441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImplementing energy-efficient CPUs and peripherals as well as reducing resource consumption have become emerging trends in computing. As computers increase in speed and power, their energy issues become more and more prevalent. The need to develop and promote environmentally friendly computer technologies and systems has also come to the forefront
Author: Ace Landers
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780606265577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRide along with Team Hot Wheels as they experience the biggest jumps, the sharpest turns, and the fastest speeds.
Author: Maltida McQuaid
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005-06-02
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781568985077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textiles--architectural, product design, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, industry, and the environment--Extreme Textiles highlights successful collaborations between design, industry, and science. Large, full-color illustrations and essays by some of today's most influential designers and scientists trace the extraordinary developments made in textiles over the last twenty years and suggest what is to come"--Back cover.
