motor vehicles

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.

Reviews the history of America's relationship with the automobile, provides an overview of the global oil and auto industries, discusses the negative effects of a car-centric culture, and offers advice on how to address the problem.

Answers questions about transportation and vehicles, including "Do airships run on air?" and "Why don't ships sink?".

Pictures and simple text describe different kinds of trucks and how they are used.