01901cam a2200301 4500 759085990 TxAuBib 20151026120000.0 140716s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014027740 9780618984824 hardcover $17.99 0618984828 hardcover $17.99 (OCoLC)884440128 NJQ/DLC eng rda ZQP DLC YDXCP BTCTA SINLB OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Glass, Andrew, 1949-, author. Flying cars [Book] : the true story / by Andrew Glass. Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015] 118 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106) and index. First, the dream -- Gustave Whitehead's condor -- Trajan Vuia's aéroplane-automobile -- Glenn Curtiss's autoplane -- Felix Longobardi's combination vehicle -- Henry Ford's flying flivver -- Waldo Waterman's arrowbile -- Harold Pitcairn's autogyro -- Joseph Gwinn's aircar -- R. Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion omnidirectional human transport -- William Bushnell Stout's skycar -- Theodore P. Hall's convaircar -- Robert Fulton's airphibian -- Daniel Zuck's plane-mobile -- Moulton b. Taylor's aerocar -- Into the future. "Flying cars are real! This book for young readers combines history, biography, technology, and humor in a breezy survey of hybrid vehicles and the dream of flight that kept inventors at work despite many failures and the dictates of common sense"-- Provided by publisher. Ages 9-12. 20151026. Flying automobiles History. Flying automobiles Technological innovations. Inventors Biography. RV8