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7) Karl Benz
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookwright
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the German engineer and inventor who pioneered in building motor-driven vehicles.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 128 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduces the automotive, engineering, and labor innovator, discussing both his finer points and his flaws and also providing 21 hands-on activities to encourage young people to apply engineering and production ideas and learn more about the era.
10) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tale about small-business entrepreneur whose hobby was responsible for saving many of today's multi-million dollar cars from the scrap-heap. How they were found, what he paid, how they were restored, what he sold them for, what astounding value they have today and pictures included--when they were just junk, and after they were restored"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an innovator who introduced the art of automobile styling into the auto-making industry, revolutionizing the way cars were made and marketed.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American inventor and industrialist who is best known for making the automobile practical, through both his revolutionary assembly lines and his desire to make a car every working man could afford.
15) Henry Ford
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With roots extending back to the first decade of the twentieth century, Nash Motor Company and the Hudson Motor Car Company managed to compete and even prosper as independent producers until they merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Company, which itself remained independent until it was bought in 1987 by the Chrysler Corporation. In Storied Independent Automakers, renowned automotive scholar Charles K. Hyde argues that these companies, while...
Author
Language
English
Description
The epic story also told in the film FORD V. FERRARI: By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather's company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
The fascinating story of two American giants--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of Henry Ford's invention of the Model-T offers insight into his mechanical talents and pioneering work in internal combustion, describing his impact on American culture and the perplexing subsequent changes in his personality.
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