motor vehicles

"Introduction to how vehicles work."--.

Explores the life of John Paul Stapp, hailed by "Time" magazine as "the Fastest Man on Earth" after his 1954 experiment to test how fast a human being could go on land--turns out, over six hundred miles an hour--and also how quickly he could come to a complete stop--just over a second.

Covers a wide selection of machines used on the road, from motorcycles to snow plows, outlining how they work and what they are used for.

"This book takes a close look at machines you can drive including monster trucks, tractors, and giant motorbikes."--Provided by publisher.

Illustrations and simple text describe various cars and trucks and the parts that make them run.

Simple text and illustrations examine heavy-duty vehicles including tractor trailers, bulldozers, forklifts, and excavators; and describes the type of work each one does.

Step-by-step illustrated instructions for making a milk carton bus, walnut boat, matchbox train, and other types of motor vehicles and ships out of materials available at home or school.

Presents descriptions and statistics about some of vehicles that have been used to set extreme world records, including racing cars, monster trucks, trains, hydroplanes, submergence vehicles, yachts, jets, and spaceships.

Traces the development, commercialization, and diffusion of diesel engines and gas turbines, and compares the efficiency and scale of these two technologies to other sources of transportation in the past.