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We start our journey on boats and we end up in the space. A history of transport told by terrific illustrations. Travel back with us as we explore the world's most important milestones in the development of travel and transportation. From little-noticed ideas that launched a technological revolution, through expeditions that reached for the stars, to tragedies that ended vast projects once and for all. As this book will show, every ending stands at the beginning of something new. Take a ride with us on the fastest, greatest, most awesome, most controversial machines that moved humanity forward.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION
TESSARAKONTERES
NEMI SHIPS
SANTA MARÍA
VICTORIA
GOLD STATE COACH
A DAUNTLESS AIR BALLOON
SS SAVANNAH
DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES
THE FIRST METRO
LINCOLN'S VEHICLES
GRENVILLE'S STEAM CARRIAGE
ORIENT EXPRESS
BENZ PATENT MOTORWAGEN
FRAM
FORD MODEL T
GRÄF & STIFT
TITANIC
BOEING
BURT MUNRO'S INDIAN SCOUT
TATRA 87
HINDENBURG
BELL 47
VOLKSWAGEN TRANSPORTER
TRIESTE
SHINKANZEN
CAPTAIN AMERICA
APOLLO 11 & SATURN V
CONCORDE
SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA
About the author
Tom Velcovsky is a graduate in Audiovisual Production from the Silesian University in Opava, where he specialized in screenwriting and storyboards. Before switching to children’s books and the making of comic strips, he worked in advertising.
Stepanka Sekaninova used to work as a TV reporter and in the production of children’s programs. Now she is a writer and a editor-in-chief, living in the Czech Republic.
Martin Sodomka was born in 1968 and educated at the Department of Industrial Design Management of the Faculty of Engineering, Brno University of Technology. In 1993 he founded a graphics studio. In 2012 he published, at his own expense, How to Build a Car, the first book in the Technical Tales series; this book was inspired by work he had performed with his own hands on a broken-down 1963 Škoda Octavia, which he later drove through many European countries.
Summary
We start our journey on boats and we end up in the space. A history of transport told by terrific illustrations.
Travel back with us as we explore the world‘s most important milestones in the development of travel and transportation. From little-noticed ideas that launched a technological revolution, through expeditions that reached for the stars, to tragedies that ended vast projects once and for all.
As this book will show, every ending stands at the beginning of something new. Take a ride with us on the fastest, greatest, most awesome, most controversial machines that moved humanity forward.
Foreword
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We start our journey on boats and we end up in the space. A history of transport told by terrific illustrations.
