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A comprehensive overview of the history of transportation, including boats, trains, cars, trucks, motorcycles, lighter-than-air craft, airplanes, helicopters, and rockets. Also includes biographies of important innovators and inventors in transportation fields. The author provides clear, basic descriptions of inventions and innovations in language that makes technical topics understandable and interesting to all readers. Heavily illustrated with vintage photos and drawings, as well as recent photos of important historical sites. Indexed.Dennis Karwatka is the author of 'Moving Civilization: The Growth of Transportation' with ISBN 9780970339836 and ISBN 0970339836.
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