The Big Book of Real Trucks
The Big Book of Real Trucks

Author: Walter Retan

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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Realistic, full-color illustrations and an exciting text portray tough trucksas they are at work.

Social Studies Through Children's Literature
Social Studies Through Children's Literature

Author: Anthony D. Fredericks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1991-10-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0313078424

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Use this activity-centered, literature-based approach to get students excited about social studies. These 32 units have summaries of books, social studies topic areas, lists of content-related words, curricular perspectives, and critical-thinking questions, as well as myriad activities. Fredericks also gives you an excellent annotated bibliography of children's literature and a list of social studies resources.

America's Fire Engine
America's Fire Engine

Author: Walter M.P. McCall

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-11-16

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1476648204

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As World War II drew to a close, America's premier fire apparatus builder--the American-LaFrance Foamite Corp. of Elmira, N.Y.--bet the company's future on its radical new cab-ahead-of-engine 700 Series fire engines. In a spectacular gamble to capture the superheated postwar market, all of the company's existing products were discontinued and its customers were essentially told to "take it or leave it." This bold gamble paid off and 700 Series rigs soon filled firehouses across the nation, sweeping aside all competitors and ultimately defining the breakthrough 700 as "America's Fire Engine." This is the first comprehensive history of the game-changing 700. Individual chapters detail not only each of the eight major vehicle types but also the origins, design controversies, manufacturing, and marketing of the 700 and short-lived transitional 800 Series. The book includes a meticulously researched registry of every 700/800 series apparatus delivered, supported by many interpretive tables detailing production, specifications and major fire department fleets.

Engines and Other Apparatus of the Milwaukee Fire Department
Engines and Other Apparatus of the Milwaukee Fire Department

Author: Wayne Mutza

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-09-18

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1476638861

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The vehicles and other firefighting equipment of the Milwaukee Fire Department, like the department itself, are unique among the fire service. It built more of its own apparatus than any other American city and few can match the scope and character of apparatus used to serve and protect life and property in Milwaukee. Through detailed research, firsthand narratives, and captivating photos, the author walks the reader through the fascinating history of the incredible machines that served Cream City from the mid-nineteenth century to modern times. This volume traces the ever-changing face of Milwaukee's fire-fighting and life-saving equipment in parallel with the city's own history and growth. The fire department workshop's reputation for ingenuity is shown through its adaptations to disastrous fires that brought about changes in laws, economic growth and decline, the establishment of Milwaukee's ethnic neighborhoods, the difficult transition from horses to motorization, the wartime and post-war experience, the corporate world of apparatus manufacturers, and Milwaukee's fireboat fleet.

The Elementary School Library Collection
The Elementary School Library Collection

Author: Brodart

Publisher:

Published: 1996-02

Total Pages: 1224

ISBN-13: 9780872721050

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A primary source for the continuous development, evaluation, and maintenance of existing collections. Includes books, big books, large type books, periodicals, art and study prints, pictures, sound filmstrips, sound recording discs and cassettes, compact discs, multimedia kits, videocassettes, microcomputer software, videodiscs, and CD-ROM products.